Short on employees, security companies join other businesses offering sign-on bonuses
Charlotte NC May 9 2021
Rick McCann CEO Private Officer International
Jobs are abundant across the country, but workers, have become hard to find.
In the service industry, the category of workers that include everyone from taxi drivers to a store salesclerks and security officers, the competition for recruiting helpers has become ferocious.
Multiple types of businesses who do not normally offer sign-on bonuses, now do and that includes the private security industry.
Among the larger security companies that have had to make such offers is Securitas, AlliedUniversal and the GEO Group.
Local and regional companies such as GuardSmart, ArchAngel and Protection One are all currently offering between $500 and $1000 for all new hires.
Allied Universal is offering as much as a $900 hiring bonus for people who will work as security staff at Santa Fe Public Schools.
One recent newcomer security company is willing to pay a $2000 bonus for anyone hired but they must stay with the company for at least 180 days to receive that bonus.
At least two states have canceled unemployment benefits to help stimulate the state’s economy.
With workers, companies cannot meet the demands for their services, products or expand their business.
Montana and South Carolina are the only two states to fully opt out of the federal unemployment benefit programs enacted in the pandemic and currently extended by the American Rescue Plan signed into law in March but other states may soon join the list as the demand for workers continues to skyrocket as more states begin to open up and business is back to normal.
