 And it wasn't just a pandemic thing. It will stay hard finding people to hire in America. A new report from the McKinsey Global Institute predicts worker shortages, which is an expensive hassle for companies and helps workers get better wages and benefits. Those are likely to persist. A lot of this are baby boomers aging out of the workforce, sharply increasing available jobs per available worker. McKinsey sees artificial intelligence as a possible way to get jobs done with the workers we have.