Good for them.
Here's some reasons people are quitting:
Low pay. Some places have raised rates but most others haven't. In fact some places have rolled back bonuses and frozen wages while receiving government money and posting huge profits.
That's got to rankle folks some.
Horrible scheduling. Imagine being told you'll only be scheduled for 10 hours but have to be available all the rest of the hours in case you're called in. You can't take a second job, or go to school, or plan to hang with friends because you're subject to being called in at any point.
Who wants to live like that?
Horrible customers. People can be really abusive of workers and in most cases the company backs the customer.
Why work at a place where you'll be abused?
Horrible recruitment. Imagine being told your pay rate is to be one amount but finding out when you actually start work that it's lower. Or that the schedule you agreed upon has been changed. You thought you were part time but guess what? You're scheduled to work near full-time hours even on days where you have other obligations.
Horrible policies. There's too many to list but things like having to show up 15 minutes early and stay 15 minutes late unpaid. Or one place saying that the time clock doesn't start counting your work-time until 15 minutes have passed since you cocked in. Getting no breaks. Having to clock out to use the restroom and on and on and on.
having to go back to the office even though you can do all your work remotely. And companies are putting spyware in your computers, making sure that you're sitting at your desk even though you might not need to be. And I just read that some company is demanding that people wear their work polos at home. And some genius based in NYC has mentioned that if you WFH and don't live in NYC anymore you're not going to be paid NYC money. There's a morale booster!
Wage theft causes the biggest loss of money than of any other crime. The boss takes $20 a week from you for a year and won't be arrested and you have to sue to get it. But YOU take $1000 from the till to make it even and you can be arrested and fired of course.
How is that fair?
Horrible morale events. Imagine working yourself to the bone over the course of this pandemic and, in addition to having your wage frozen and losing bonuses, the company thanks you for all your hard work by giving you a bag with a few bucks worth of candy in it. Or an engraved stone. Or a cheap-ass pizza party. One picture I saw, a woman was given a scratcher ticket which revealed that she had won an UNPAID day off. Wooo.
Horrible work-places. Unsafe, ugly or soul-deadening spaces full of people you don't want to be around. That you may have to spend an hour in your car to get to each day.
Horrible hours when all hours are counted. You're not paid for the time you need to get ready in the morning, nor are you paid for the commute, nor for the wear and tear on your car. Nobody really noticed that until the pandemic and people saw how much time and money they were saving by not having to go into the office.
Many, many, many folks have no interest in going back to the office and will and have quit instead.
Horrible management. All of the above relates to just how bad bosses are. While there are bright spots among bosses, many are sociopathic control-freaks who don't give a damn about their workers.
"Your mom just died? Wow that's rough. You still need to come in on Saturday!"
"You're graduating on Friday? Well, that doesn't work for me, I need you to come in."
Or getting mad when workers want to use their paid time off.
Or writing someone up for being a few minutes late when they've showed up early and stayed late multiple times unpaid.
Or not filling positions and expecting the remaining workers to pick up the slack and for no extra pay.
All of this goes to the fact that workers get very little respect, and it's finally gotten to a point where they're just not going to put up with it anymore. And all these idiot bosses have f'ed around and are now finding out.
They're finding out they need the workers more then the workers need them.
I'm perfectly fine with a business failing because they can't treat people right. Good riddance.