After 23 years in the field, there isn’t much that Kristin Bevens hasn’t seen in the world of hourly staffing of warehouse labor. She’s seen worker wage rates fall and stay in the toilet during the 1990s and 2000s. She saw them recover about a decade ago and rise dramatically with the dawn of e-commerce and warehouse fulfillment demand. She then saw them soar during the pandemic as goods ordering crested and seemingly everyone ordered from home.
As the economy moves to the back side of the...
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