News Forum - Phuket desperate for more skilled hotel workers

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Hotel managers in Phuket are panicking over a skills shortage in their industry. According to some managers, many skilled and experienced staff left the industry during the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, hotels have the numbers of staff needed, but they have half the age and experience of former workers. The area general manager of Angsana Laguna Phuket, Michael Zitek, said at a vocational training event last week… “Before Covid, from say 2017-2019, our supervisors and mid-level management were in their 40s and already had 20 years of experience. At the moment our supervisors are maybe mid-20s.” Zitek says Phuket’s skills shortage […]

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[Prosaap]

I see many hotels in phuket that have philipine staff the thai were just cleaners and drivers i wonder why

[Cabra]

Those jobs are now eligible for a pay increase under the new min wage rules, that might help