Tag: retail workers

April 11, 2023

A university study finds that while research has shown loyal workers offer numerous benefits to employers, they tend to be exploited by being asked to do unpaid work and additional job tasks where less committed colleagues are not. In the […]

June 29, 2022

A RetailWire headline last October asked the question: “Who protects store associates when shoppers lash out?” The answer to that question may come in new labor contracts being negotiated by unions representing frontline retail workers and their employers. A New […]

May 26, 2022

A new report by industry charity the Retail Trust has found that one in five (21%) British retail workers and nearly a third (31%) of people working for the UK’s biggest retailers are planning to quit the sector. The Retail […]

October 13, 2021

Retail workers’ willingness to quit helps explain why hiring has been short of expectations in the last two months. Employers didn’t fill as many jobs as expected during August or September, despite the end of many unemployment benefits and the […]

September 4, 2020

Some retailers may have eliminated hazard pay, but the threat of COVID-19 is far from over and frontline workers are feeling the pressure. Fifty-five percent of retail workers are feeling more stressed during the crisis, 60 percent report having higher […]

February 21, 2020

Companies looking to hire in 2020 understand that the competition for talent is fierce. In order to attract and retain the best employees, more retailers are sweetening their offers with such incentives as tuition reimbursement, flexible work arrangements and subsidized […]

November 25, 2019

Retailers forecast robust holiday hiring in 2019 in order to keep up with consumer demand. This wave of hiring is already well underway. Several retailers announced hiring plans earlier this year: Target in September announced it planned to hire 130,000 […]