Costs and Risks of Hiring vs. Automation

By Bob Neubauer

Howie Fenton

The combination of the paper shortage and staffing crisis has created new problems. In a new blog, Consultant Howie Fenton compares how two companies approached staffing issues differently, experiencing different results.

“In the past, adding automation or hiring inexperienced staff were equally viable options,” Fenton writes. “However, three factors today make hiring and training a riskier choice than in the past.”

To find out what these three factors are, read Fenton’s full blog here.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 170 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.