Are You Prepared for a Vanishing Manufacturing Workforce?

Rethinking How Work Gets Done in the New Labor Market Reality

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83% of manufacturers say that attracting and retaining a quality workforce is their top challenge.


Developing the domestic labor pool builds resilience, supports local economies, and fosters long-term retention. However, the pipeline for manufacturing workers is constrained, and failing to build the local workforce has lasting effects.

Manufacturing organizations are already feeling the impacts of growing talent shortages:

45%

of manufacturers said they had to turn down business opportunities due to workforce shortages.

58% 

of those familiar with manufacturing believe it offers limited career growth.

77%

of the future workforce say manufacturing is not currently on their radar or being talked about.

Learn more about the growing workforce crisis.

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