One local luxury hotel had its human resources director picked off another lost its executive housekeeper. The French restaurant Deuxave will be down a quarter of its servers when three experienced employees leave for Encore, said owner Chris Coombs. The hiring rush is causing anxiety among managers across the region, as they lose star players to a shiny new employer offering higher pay and better benefits in a historically tight labor market.Īt a recent Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce meeting, one manager at a major hotel joked that so many of his employees were being courted by Encore that he was considering ringing his property with barbed wire, according to several attendees.Įven having a few choice workers picked off can have a big impact. The Encore Boston Harbor, recently cleared to open in late June, is rushing to finish filling 5,500 positions - luring employees from hotels and restaurants, from the airport and convention centers and hospitals, in what is surely one of the biggest hiring sprees in the history of Greater Boston.
