As a former employee of one of these resorts, I can tell you it is not the pandemic that has primarily chased the staff away, less then 20% would be pandemic related in PA, majority being people not interested in complying with the vaccine regulations.
Vail has run off a number of management and many guest facing staff who are fed up with the ridiculous Vail policies that work ok in Colorado but make no sense east of the Mississippi, let alone in South PA the lowest elevation/100% snowmaking ski areas in the US. So much so that most have given up a higher base pay rate and just bought a pass so they can ski when they want.
One example: closing the slopeside bar at Liberty at 6pm (instead of 8-9) on Sundays when the bar area is normally filled with parents waiting for their kids to finish skiing for the night.
By pandemic I was more thinking new hires. Unfortunately take overs tend to force a change in staff. Although it’s insane they didn’t keep key tribal knowledge. Also look at subsequent posts hadn’t realized how long of the NH resorts had been owned. Def seems like VR is dropping ball badly.