labor shortage

  • How Can You Solve a Worker Shortage Right Now?

    • July 28, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business, Management, Manufacturing
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    A metal worker working on a hydraulic press. If you cross-train your employees, you can avoid a worker shortage

    There are worker shortages right now in all kinds of industries, from the restaurant industry to office workers to manufacturing. There are a variety of causes, like the fact that we’re paying people more not to work than what they were being paid to work. Or that some people don’t want to return to the

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  • Why Do We Need More Women in Manufacturing?

    • April 7, 2021
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Business
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    Women working on a bomber during WWII. We need more women in manufacturing.

    People have a tendency to stereotype and it has always aggravated me when they do. There’s been a long-time myth that manufacturing is only for men, and that women are incapable of doing the kind of hard work involved in a factory. You only have to know the story of how 6 million American women

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  • Look to Retirees to Shore Up Your Labor Shortage

    • February 19, 2020
    • Posted by: David Marshall
    • Category: Management, Manufacturing, Productivity
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    Call up your retired workers to help you with a labor shortage.

    As the labor market continues to tighten, and it’s getting harder to hire skilled and experienced labor, it will behoove managers to take a different view on hiring people over 65 on a consultancy basis. There’s a lot of experience sitting on the sidelines that’s not being utilized, and it’s contributing to the American labor

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