Employees like Matt Fairbanks are one of the reasons the hospitality and restaurant industry is struggling to find workers even as the pandemic wanes.
The 34-year-old former bartender has moved from slinging beers in Toronto to selling software to restaurants for a Saskatchewan company — which he does remotely.
“I was always kind of one foot out of the hospitality industry and the pandemic really showed me how vulnerable the work was and the instability of it all,” he said in an interview.
Gone are the harrowing commutes, while the additional flexibility has improved his work-life balance. Fairbanks’s company allows employees to work from out of the country for up to 90 days, take unlimited vacation and travel or work from anywhere in Canada….