The Cost of Doing Business
Developing skilled employees internally is expensive, but not doing so might be more expensive still.
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Too few prospective employees are entering the workforce trained in skills that are relevant to modern manufacturing. Whose fault is this shortfall? I could point fingers—I bet you could, too. But whose problem is it to solve? Frankly, it’s yours. Stark as that sounds, the challenge of recruiting and training manufacturing staffing will fall to the manufacturing business owners and facility managers in need of this staff. It’s hard to see a likely solution to the immediate lack of skilled manufacturing tradespeople except that manufacturers themselves will increasingly take on the training and development of this talent.
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