Businesses have cut their hours because they don't have enough staff. James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images Businesses are cutting back on their services because of the labor shortage. Those affected range from a cleaning company in Virginia to a dog-walking business in Georgia. Even though the service cuts cost them customers, they don't have enough staff to operate as usual. See more stories on Insider's business page. Laughing Pets, a pet-sitting and dog-walking company in Atlanta, Georgia, turned down a holiday job worth around $2,500 because it couldn't find enough staff."We get, on average, four new inquiries per day and we have to turn all of them away," its owner Karen Levy told Insider.She said that she used to hire 12 members of staff, which has fallen to just five.