Is Your In-plant Fully Staffed?
With nearly a third of in-plants reporting staff shortages, finding skilled help is a major concern in the industry. We are conducting a survey to learn more about how in-plants are attracting and retaining workers, and what obstacles are impeding them.
Preliminary data from this survey reveals that many job candidates want more money than in-plants are able to offer. Some also are looking for remote work or are just not interested in running bindery equipment or sorting mail. These are all serious impediments for in-plant managers trying to hire employees and meet deadlines.
You can participate in this ongoing survey at this link: SurveyMonkey.com/r/ipi-staffing. Please let us know the staffing situation at your in-plant, whether you are fully staffed or have so many vacancies you’re running the equipment yourself. Your insights will help us paint a clearer picture of what is happening across the in-plant community. We’ll report the results in an upcoming issue of IPI.
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 200 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.
