Tag: workforce

April 18, 2022

Successfully adapting to workforce changes is critical for any business to thrive. Within the manufacturing sector, various issues arising over the past few years have caused an uptick in demand for more flexibility at work. One way to successfully adjust […]

January 31, 2022

Manufacturing organizations are thriving, despite the challenges with the labor market over the past two years. Many are now hiring employees at volume to keep up with increased consumer demand and high turnover rates. Recruiters in this industry have a […]

October 5, 2021

It does not seem possible that 80% of the world’s workforce (2.7 billion people) could be largely neglected by the big tech companies, but it’s true. These are the individuals behind the scenes, working on production lines, delivering goods, servicing […]

June 16, 2021

For years we’ve seen a discrepancy between the number of women enrolled in college engineering programs and the number of women in the engineering workforce. According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the percentage of women in undergraduate engineering programs […]

November 16, 2020

Following the onset of COVID, economies across the world were stunted and forced to adapt to new policies and protocols put in place to keep people safe. Manufacturing facilities were among the many industries that were significantly impacted when COVID […]

April 20, 2020

In its most recent report, Accenture stresses that “no industry is immune and the industrial equipment is no exception.” “Industrial equipment companies are grappling with the immediate impact of COVID-19 as both their manufacturing and supply chain operations are being […]

April 9, 2020

At some point, the biggest American companies are going to tell their employees it’s time to leave home and return to work. That decision will be fraught with risk without widespread testing for the COVID-19 virus. For some industries, such […]

October 4, 2019

HP Inc. (IW 500/22) will slash as much as 16% of its workforce as part of a broad restructuring meant to cut costs and boost sales growth amid the company’s first change in top leadership in four years. The personal […]

July 18, 2019

Millennials are over — the next generation is about to enter the workforce, and new polling reveals they could be more likely than their immediate predecessors to enter manufacturing. Leaning2Lead (L2L), a data and software analysis company, found that 27 […]

January 14, 2019

SpaceX is taking the ax to its headquarters in California. Hours after launching its first rocket of the new year on Friday morning, the Elon Musk-led company told employees that roughly 10% of SpaceX’s workforce would be laid off. Stunned […]