New staffing platform turns focus to gig workers

Rather than hiring workers the traditional way, a new staffing platform is changing things up. And it's not a quick scheme to get hospitality industry workers back, either.

  • By Amanda Postma
  • | 12:00 p.m. December 9, 2021
Courtesy. Jamie Baxter, CEO of Qwick, says the matching platform fills a need for both the hospitality industry and workers looking to make a little extra money.
Courtesy. Jamie Baxter, CEO of Qwick, says the matching platform fills a need for both the hospitality industry and workers looking to make a little extra money.
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The employee retention issue in the hospitality issue is easy to identify, for the most part, but equally hard to solve: when the world shut down, the hospitality industry was forced to furlough or lay off workers. Now that the industry is opening back up, a lot of those workers aren't returning. 

 

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