Retention

The current construction industry outlook indicates that challenges with workforce supply and demand will continue well into the future. According to Associated Builders and Contractors, “The construction industry will need to attract an estimated 501,000 additional workers on t...

WASHINGTON, July 30—The construction industry had 295,000 job openings on the last day of June, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. JOLTS defines a job opening as an...

A company that has been around for nearly 150 years, it’s safe to say, knows something about employee recruitment and retention. Founded as a mechanical contractor by two sons of an Irish immigrant in Huntsville, Alabama, in 1884, H.C. Blake Co. today is on its seventh generatio...

The U.S. construction sector is at a crossroads, balancing surging infrastructure demands with stagnant processes and persistent headwinds that diminish profitability. Perhaps most prominently, infrastructure projects are still reeling from rising financing costs and inflationar...

Contractors have been contending with labor shortages for several years. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like this will materially improve any time soon. Two trends indicate that contractors and their supply-chain partners will need to get even more creative to successfully naviga...

To keep pace with demand, contractors may need to hire 500,000 more workers this year above their normal pace of hiring, according to Associated Builders and Contractors. This at a time when many businesses still struggle to hire skilled workers. The data shows there’s a tight l...

The construction industry has long been male-dominated, but the tide is turning as more women are making their mark in this traditionally challenging field. It’s invigorating to witness the increasing presence of women in various roles within the industry, and the importance of t...

Over the past decade, the construction industry has expanded its workforce by tapping into new segments of workers to find much needed talent. For example, women have seen steady employment gains in recent years. The number of women working in construction grew from 802,000 to 1....

In an industry where people are the primary assets of the organizations that perform the work, one of the toughest and most important challenges is effective workforce planning. For Harkins, a general contractor headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with offices throughout the mid...

Before Rebecca Barrows started her junior year of high school outside of Houston, she assumed that her next step would be a collegiate architecture program. But a visit to New York City for an architecture camp in the summer of 2018 changed her direction. “We visited a hospital t...