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Seriously, I have a couple of really good regular employees and generally use temps for larger jobs. You have to go through a lot of temps to find enough good ones. I'm pretty specific in describing the work to the agencies but it seems that "hard physical labor" meens different things to different people.
I found the article I have been looking for finally. I am waiting for a response from the company that published it to see if I can post it. I will let you know.
Anybody else having trouble finding help?
I saw this article in a magazine the other day according to the AGC; some 250,000 trained jobs go unfilled each year in the US construction industry. The demand for skilled workers has tripled since 1950, from 20% of the total work force, to 65% in 2000. Fewer than 500,000 are in registered training and the average craftsman is 47 years old.
So there ya go!
Robert Kulinski said:
I think part of it might be because it is physically demanding work. Face it, demolition ain't easy. The next generation is a bunch of video game addicted, fat, couch potatoes.
True, but I am not a video game addict.......
1:50 PM
October 7, 2005
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I think part of it might be because it is physically demanding work. Face it, demolition ain't easy. The next generation is a bunch of video game addicted, fat, couch potatoes.
There just seems to be a new generation coming through, work ethic has gotten lower on the list of priorities
Dust,
I am hearing them same thing. I think a lot of it is that the GenX group has seen their grandparents and possibly their on parents working for the same company for years and years and then one day they are out of a job due to downsizing or that the company could hire 2 part time employees to do the same job and not have to pay benefits ands the like. So they see that after several years of a parent or grandparent working and getting the boot, they see no
We also are having trouble finding quality labor. There just seems to be a new generation coming through, work ethic has gotten lower on the list of priorities...Its getting frustrating !!!! We are located in New England
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