From extra pay to extra vacations to extra jobs — what the post-COVID working world is looking like

The working world is changing post-COVID, as workers look to take advantage of a shrinking work force.

The newfound leverage could lead to bonus and raise opportunities.

According to the United States Department of Labor, average weekly wages in the leisure and hospitality industry went up by 10.55 percent from February 2020 to May 2021.

Other workers are taking advantage of the market to find a better paying, less stressful job.

The Department of Labor reported some 649,000 retail workers quit in April. That is the industry’s largest one-month exodus since the Labor Department began tracking such data more than 20 years ago.

With many parts of the world reopening, some businesses that became much busier during the early part of the pandemic are now able to take a break.

Bumble, an online dating service, gave its employees the week off to combat a “collective burnout.”