The worker shortage in manufacturing has been exacerbated by the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, which erased over a decade of job gains in the manufacturing sector, eliminating more than 1.4 million ...

It’s no secret that labor has been challenging manufacturers for the past several years. The world, workers and expectations have changed. While the manufacturing industry has rebounded from about 1.4 ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. For automotive suppliers based in Michigan and elsewhere, ...

Manufacturers have spent years thinking about the labor gap, working to attract people to the industry. The difference is that now, they're not alone. "The labor market is just really squeezed present ...

The idea of workers being replaced by automation is nothing new (there were literally movies being made about this all the way back in the 1950s!) but more recently they’ve started to go from fear to ...

Retailers are offering generous bonuses, shipping companies money for college tuition. Restaurants of all categories and sizes are boosting wages and improving benefits, all in a desperate effort to ...

President-elect Donald Trump has downplayed warnings that his pledge to impose sweeping tariffs on imports may send inflation spiking again. The far bigger concern, he has insisted, is his plan’s ...

Direct manufacturing labor costs are associated with the laborers in your factory who work on the goods you're manufacturing directly. It's important to measure this cost for a small business, because ...

Perceptions of dirty, smoky work environments are not the reality of the digital-manufacturing industry. Since reaching a high-water mark in March 2015, the U.S. has lost 68,000 durable manufacturing ...

There are two different types of labor costs -- direct and indirect. The two labor cost metrics, in the manufacturing sectors, are based on the labor required to produce products versus labor ...