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What Skilled-Labor Shortage?

H.C. Blake may have found the secret to combatting the talent crisis: a multigenerational workforce that learns from each other.
By Grace Calengor
July 24, 2024
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by Grace Calengor
Grace Calengor is senior editor of Construction Executive. Prior to joining ABC in April 2023, she was managing editor of The Zebra Press in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, in 2020 with two bachelor’s degrees in English and classics, and a minor in comparative literature.

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