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Report sheds light on restaurants’ hourly workersReport sheds light on restaurants’ hourly workers

Snagajob and LinkedIn release “Hourly Worker Survey”

Alan Liddle, Senior Data & Events Editor

February 25, 2017

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A new study of America’s 78 million hourly workers sheds light on the foodservice industry’s strengths and weaknesses when it comes labor. 

The “Hourly Worker Survey” by job listing and career sites Snagajob and LinkedIn reviewed more than 120 million job applications from more than 20 million applicants using Snagajob. It also analyzed Snagajob’s full database and examined millions of LinkedIn profile hourly job titles, company representatives said.

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Research covered such topics as common job titles for hourly workers in foodservice, the traits of hourly workers that result in faster promotions, and the industries that compete for hourly workers.

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Unsurprisingly, of the 59 percent of American workers that are paid on an hourly basis, 71 pe...

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About the Author

Alan Liddle

Senior Data & Events Editor

Alan is Senior Data & Events Editor for The Restaurant & Food Group within Informa Connect, including Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurant Hospitality, Food Management and Supermarket News. He joined NRN in 1984, covering the Pacific Northwest, and later added chief photographer duties, initiated NRN’s regular technology coverage, was on the development team for NRN.com and generated content for NRN’s early podcasting initiative, Podcast Central, beginning in 2006. Alan is senior researcher and data analyst for NRN and Supermarket News market data products, including Top 200 and SN75, and helps develop and present educational programs for conferences and webinars. A graduate of California State University at Fullerton and a former daily and weekly newspaper reporter, he resides in Salinas, Calif.

 

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