The labor crisis is bad news for everybody, but none more so than employers who simply can't fill their open staffing positions. As a result, many of those business owners are getting very desperate:

U.S. companies are downsizing the hiring process.

Beauty product retailer The Body Shop is dropping educational requirements and background checks for job applicants. United Parcel Service Inc. is making some job offers in as little as 10 minutes. CVS Health Inc. no longer requires college graduates to submit their grades.

In a labor market where job openings outnumber applicants, companies are brainstorming how to get more candidates in the door and to the floor. The hiring overhaul signals a potentially broad rethink of job qualifications, a change that could help millions of people enter jobs previously out of reach, according to economists and workforce experts.

Oh yeah? Lowering work requirements could help fix the labor problem? After the cessation of enhanced unemployment benefits didn't work? And after $17/hour starting wages didn't work? And after the Biden administration enforces its deeply unpopular vaccine mandate? Do we really think these new measures are going to have much of an effect?

But hey, at least CVS Health can tap all of the 3.2 GPA students it's been shutting out for so long!