Recruiting and retaining printing’s up-and-coming workforce can require more than a job posting.
For a decade we have known that our workforce was aging and the print industry would someday face a labor shortage. In the PRINTING United Alliance/NAPCO Research State of the Industry Update: First Quarter 2022 report, 68.6% of the respondents indicated labor shortages as a significant concern for their businesses this year. A similar statistic was noted in the 2021 Printing Industry Performance & Insights survey, in which 70% of respondents reported that labor shortages …