Highly-Skilled Workers
When there aren’t enough highly-skilled workers in the workforce, employers find it more difficult and costly to recruit and retain the workers they need.
Developed as part of the Workforce Narrative Project, this report explores the business community's unique interest in workforce development. The author presents why employers and policymakers should take a vested interest in workforce development opportunities, and how employer involvement with the workforce system could become more active and effective.
It is in our collective best interest to encourage businesses to pursue profits through strategies that build on their employees' higher skills, productivity and earnings – achieved by a quality public workforce system.