“Light industrial jobs have been going away forever, retail has been consolidating.
“There’s actual growth of opportunity in the cannabis industry,” Belsky says. The breadth of cannabis makes it an interesting foil for the resignation narrative we’re seeing elsewhere. This is a national industry, however fragmented it may be. I just don't think it's as relevant for cannabis.”Īccording to FlowerHire’s research, 80% of the demand for work in the cannabis space is materializing outside of California, painting a picture that newer markets on the East Coast or in the Midwest, for instance, are driving that sense of growth. “I think there are a lot of contributing factors to the great resignation,” Belsky says. Elsewhere, consumer-packaged goods and the light industrial space are facing a supply crunch. It’s a regulated space that’s emerged from advocacy efforts and political headwinds in the past 10 or so years, and its growth now demands new workers from a variety of backgrounds-including horticulture, certainly, but also financial management, retail, interior design, corporate communications, insurance and so on.Ī lot of service-based industries, like hospitality, have faced a sudden demand crunch amid the pandemic.
Early last year, Leafly released a formal jobs report that found at least 321,000 full-time equivalent jobs in the industry-and that number was expected to grow steadily.ĭavid Belsky, CEO of recruitment firm FlowerHire, says that cannabis finds itself in an interesting position as an industry with no real (legal) history of employment. and its sky-high ceiling for growth in the otherwise uncertain years to come. The cannabis industry, which clocked around $26 billion in sales in 2021, may not be entirely immune from the trend, but it’s certainly a bit protected by virtue of its rapid expansion across the U.S. Even as inflation rises, workers are leaving behind jobs at astonishing numbers and for myriad reasons-chief among them stagnant wages. 4 that set the ongoing economic tension in stark relief. Department of Labor survey results published Jan. On the homepage of the New York Times earlier this week: “More Workers Quit Than Ever as U.S.
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