Alphabet, PayPal and 7 Other Stocks That Can Thrive in a Labor Shortage – Barrons

The inability to hire workers and a labor shortage is an oft-repeated concern from corporate CEOs grappling with the Great Resignation.The scramble for talent amid acute labor shortages and the pandemic bring to the fore the importance of a company’s relationship with workers—and that includes wages, benefits and flexibility, and ways they promote and train their workforce.“Companies that are outperforming for workers are outperforming versus the market,” says Alison Omens, chief strategy officer at Just Capital, a nonprofit that tracks how the largest U.S. publicly traded companies are doing on a variety of metrics,…