In a bid to fill hundreds of empty hospitality job roles across the West End, one of London's biggest landlords is to hold its first ever recruitment fair. The Crown Estate, which owns all of Regent Street and around half of St James's, said a survey of 25 of its tenants found there was a shortfall of over 600 staff in the area.
Six months ago the Crown Estate launched a customer partnership team to help support its tenants as businesses struggled to recover from the pandemic. Leanne Catterall, customer partnership director at the Crown Estate, said the staffing problem was across the board in retail and hospitality.
"There's been a real dip in people in the industry since Brexit, that's when we first started to notice the challenges and that's just started to worsen with the pandemic.
"Our customers are seeing the impact on their bottom line and having to spend more on staffing.”
With hospitality businesses throughout the country are struggling to find skilled and reliable staff, is this an idea that could work to help get employees into rolls here in New Zealand?
