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How Domestic Mobility Staffing Solves What H-2B Cannot
For years, manufacturers and food processors have used the H-2B visa program to address seasonal...
Domestic Mobility Staffing: Using Puerto Rico as Your Labor Reservoir
Domestic mobility staffing connects manufacturing facilities with workers from high-unemployment...
Finding a Domestic Relocation Staffing Agency: What to Look For
When evaluating a domestic relocation staffing agency, most HR leaders focus on price. That is the...
How Domestic Mobility Staffing Solves What H-2B Cannot
For years, manufacturers and food processors have used the H-2B visa program to address seasonal and ongoing labor shortages. The program has real value. It has also real limitations that are becoming harder to ignore, and domestic mobility staffing addresses the most...
Domestic Mobility Staffing: Using Puerto Rico as Your Labor Reservoir
Domestic mobility staffing connects manufacturing facilities with workers from high-unemployment regions across the United States. Puerto Rico is one of the most powerful and most underutilized sources available to any employer using this model.Why Puerto Rico Is...
Finding a Domestic Relocation Staffing Agency: What to Look For
When evaluating a domestic relocation staffing agency, most HR leaders focus on price. That is the wrong starting point. The right starting point is: what does the retention data actually look like for workers they have placed? Everything else follows from that.What...
Domestic Relocation Staffing: How It Works and Who Needs It
Domestic relocation staffing is a workforce model that sources workers from high-unemployment regions across the United States and manages their relocation to manufacturing and industrial facilities in labor-shortage markets. It is the structural alternative to local...
What Is Workforce Mobility and Why Does It Matter for U.S. Manufacturing?
Workforce mobility is the practice of systematically relocating workers from labor-surplus regions to facilities in labor-shortage markets. For U.S. manufacturing, it is one of the most important and least utilized workforce strategies available.Defining Workforce...
Workforce Mobility: The Staffing Strategy Manufacturers Are Missing
Workforce mobility is the systematic movement of workers from high-unemployment regions to facilities in labor-shortage markets. For manufacturing, it is the structural answer to the problem that local recruiting, H-2B visas, and sign-on bonuses have not solved.Most...
The Skilled Trades Shortage Is Solvable. It Just Requires Moving People.
Every conversation about the skilled trades shortage in manufacturing eventually arrives at the same conclusion: training pipelines are too slow, the problem is going to get worse before it gets better, and there is no quick fix. That conclusion is wrong. There is a...
Relocating Skilled Trades Workers: Why Geography Is the Real Problem
The skilled trades shortage in manufacturing is consistently described as a pipeline problem. Not enough people are entering trades programs. The existing workforce is aging out. Training pipelines are too slow. All of that is true. But there is a second dimension of...
How to Relocate Skilled Trades Workers to Fill Your Most Critical Gaps
The skilled trades shortage in manufacturing is different from the general production worker shortage. Welders, electricians, CNC operators, maintenance technicians, and millwrights take years to develop and cannot be quickly trained into existence. When your local...