Short-Staffed and Stretched Thin: The Budget Challenge Facing In-plants
In-plants are always fighting the budget battle.
They’re on the hunt for new equipment and software. They are looking for ways to keep work in-house, which helps save money and boost quality for their parent organizations. And they are trying to maintain a top-performing, hardworking team.
All of this requires money — especially the people piece. According to the latest report from In-plant Impressions, 67% of in-plants with vacancies say they haven’t filled those roles due to a hiring freeze or lack of budget to hire.
The No. 2 reported reason for vacancies? Employees are leaving for other opportunities.
Without a full staff, in-plants are seeing heavier workloads, slower turnaround times, increased overtime, and even dips in production quality. An understaffed in-plant is one with compounding operational issues — and that means its parent organization isn’t getting the support it needs.
To determine what’s working for in-plants on the staffing front, we asked shops — both fully staffed and hiring — to share their staffing struggles, retention and hiring practices, and what they’re doing to fill the staffing gap.
Download the exclusive “In-plant Staffing Practices and Trends” report to learn more about how your in-plant can strengthen your workforce and your capabilities.
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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 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.
