Workforce development has been Topic A since the end of the Great Recession. It’s also been an ongoing topic of conversations I’ve had with roofing contractors for over 40 years. The task of finding, training, and retaining talent has never been easy, and in today’s economy it’s tougher than I’ve ever seen it.
The good news is there are some best practices when it comes to workforce development that can improve your results if you focus on them. The bad news is, as an industry, we have not done a very good job developing our workforce and now find ourselves with an aging population of skilled roofers without a great plan for replacing them.