The latest surge of coronavirus cases powered by the omicron variant has caused extremely high numbers of employees to miss work because of illness, exacerbating the country’s persistent labor shortages and threatening to complicate the labor market’s push toward pre-pandemic employment levels. As The Washington Post reports, between Dec. 29 and Jan. 10, approximately 8.8
COVID surge has workers calling in sick in record numbers
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