By the end of 2024, Russia will be short of about 130,000 taxi drivers, said Anton Petrakov, director of corporate and government relations at Yandex Taxi, at a session of the Eastern Economic Forum, an RBC correspondent reports.
According to Petrakov, the shortage of personnel is increasing, including due to the tightening of migration policy and regulation of taxi activity. Because of this, drivers are moving to other fields with comparable income but less demands and expenses.
The more acute the driver shortage is, the faster taxi fares rise, especially at the end of the year and during peak hours, when demand increases exponentially, Petrakov said.
“Prices will rise and vary from year to year by tens of percent. If this problem is not solved, it will not be solved.” – he clarified.
“[Нужно] “We want to provide some additional window for the use of technology and remove barriers to entry into the industry. There are quite serious regulations, which are often quite difficult to comply with. We know for a fact that it is possible to digitise consignment notes and medical examinations. You can take out short daily insurance policies, up to one minute.” – says petrakov
The taxi industry is not the only sector whose representatives actively complain about staff shortages. Previously, Executive Director of the Association of Housing and Public Services Management Companies Vera Moscow spoke of a shortage of janitors and plumbers, and the Association of Entertainment and Event Tourism Operators noted a large number of vacancies in legal casinos and gambling zones. Executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia Maya Lomidze He also drew attention to the fact that the lack of specialists remains a serious problem for tourism, RBC recalls.
