I think I've been hearing about "skills shortages" for as long as I've been in the computer industry, yet at various times heard anecdotes from highly-qualified and experienced software developers (including me) that finding work takes many months.

In response to the Australian Government’s proposal to force search and social media companies to negotiate payment with news publishers, Google threatened to leave the country and Facebook decided to remove news content from its service. The latter decision in particular left a lot of organisations scrambling for what to do.