Driving performance through workforce intelligence
Through innovative thinking, our workforce experts constantly analyze and evaluate workforce data – to provide our customers with actionable insights on labor statistics, workforce solutions, vertical industry trends, and more.
Thought LeadershipWhite Collar. Blue Collar. New Collar. The evolution of the American workforce
With each passing year, blue-collar job requirements become more sophisticated as the use of technology in manufacturing continues to grow – deepening an already wide skills gap. Today’s age of smart manufacturing and distribution relies more and more on high-tech systems, sensors, feedback loops, and continuous automation. While some machining and distribution work is still manual, equipment is, and will continue to be, increasingly digitally driven.
Thought LeadershipParadigm Shift in Blue-Collar Labor Demand
A paradigm shift in labor supply and demand trends following the U.S. recession (December 2007 to June 2009) has created renewed emphasis on the importance of the blue-collar workforce. For over a decade prior to the recession, America’s recruiting focus was largely on white-collar workers, a term which has become synonymous with “knowledge workers.”
Thought LeadershipJobs with Joanie Courtney July 2019
In this presentation, EmployBridge Chief Workforce Analyst Joanie Courtney reviews the latest jobs report from July 2019 and data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). To view the recording, please click here
Thought LeadershipLeveraging Workplace Stability
The income and resource gap is a growing divide in workplace culture causing missed opportunities from miscommunications to separations, as well as lost productivity, promotion, and profit.
Thought LeadershipRecruiting Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace
Although labor participation is edging up, filling jobs continues to be a challenge. Contingency staffing professionals have targeted tactics for a tight market.
Thought LeadershipHow to Succeed in the Battle for Talent
Key findings from our Manufacturing Employee Opinion Survey of nearly 10,000 hourly manufacturing employees and job seekers.
White PaperICE Increases Enforcement and Workplace Visits
Find out how to respond to the shifting priorities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and leverage your staffing partnership to maintain compliance.
White PaperMore employers using “living wage” to improve workforce and business results.
A growing number of successful employers are now using the living wage to help establish pay rates and understand that offering wage levels based on those found on, say, local job boards is not optimal for either their business or their workers.
White PaperThe Automation Effect
Like all change, automation in the U.S. job market brings challenge but also an opportunity for those able to navigate the shifting environment. It may lead to job growth, benefitting workers.
White PaperVicious Cycle vs. Virtuous Cycle
Pay is consistently the most important aspect of employee satisfaction in EmployBridge surveys and the #1 reason for voluntary separation. Leveraging fair, competitive pay has benefits for all.
Case StudyBuilding an effecting manufacturing staffing partnership… quickly
An urgent change in continency staffing providers at FMH Conveyors to a partnership with ResourceMFG yielded both immediate and long-term solutions.
Case StudyPartnering Through a Critical Ramp-Up
In support of a serious scale-up, Select increased Thyssenkrupp’s staff rapidly, without a decrease in quality or an increase in turnover, and aligned with the company’s lean manufacturing goals.
Case StudyLean Manufacturing, Positive Business Results Continue
Magpul Industries partnered with ResourceMFG to support their new lean culture. The rewards of working lean together paid off in dividends; from increased productivity, inventory variance improvement decreased downtime, pick order accuracy and more.
Case StudyPeak Season Distribution Center Start Up
With peak season looming, Amazon needed to open a new distribution center in Phoenix, Arizona. ProLogistix was able to staff and ramp up operations at the facility, achieving a 100% fill rate in just 45 days – ahead of peak retail season.
Case StudyPrepared for Peak Season
In a tight peak season labor market, ProLogistix utilized market and wage insights, competitive data and industry expertise to recommend that a client offer a higher rate of pay to attract more workers. And it worked.