Where Are the Workers?

News headlines underscore a growing crisis among businesses: A severe shortage of talent for current and future positions.
The Where are the Workers analysis is being led by Fund for Our Economic Future, Team NEO, ConxusNEO, PolicyBridge, with funding support from The Kresge Foundation, Deaconess Foundation and the Summit & Medina Workforce Area Council of Governments. Together, we are working to understand the question on everyone’s mind: Where are the workers?
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Featured Story
Will people rejoin the workforce? How many workers will quit this year? Survey of 5,000 Northeast Ohioans offers clues
Research Updates
Employers, workforce agencies, policymakers, and others needed answers yesterday, so we won’t be waiting for the ink to dry on the final report to share key insights and answer questions. Read on for updates on the work as it progresses.
Where Are the Workers?
Replay: Webinar on Working-Age Adult Survey Data
Fund seeks quotes for data dashboards for Where Are the Workers
Courting Talent: Empathy as a Competitive Advantage
Data and research drive Where are the Workers, efforts to create an equitable economy
Work Culture Clash
More resources, yes. But what public transit agencies really need are more flexible resources.
What’s Behind Workers’ Decisions? We’re Asking Them.
An equitable recovery: Moving beyond a return to status quo
New survey reveals what employers are (or aren’t) doing to mitigate talent challenges
How a Shifting Financial Position May Be Impacting Worker Choices
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Anecdotes and Evidence—A National Scan of Worker Shortage Analyses
Where Are the Workers?

Media Coverage
Why Did 400,000+ Quit Jobs in Region? It’s Complicated, Study Finds
The value of people, the power of place
A new survey asks: Where are the workers and what do they want?
Manufacturers Can’t Find Workers. Where’d They Go?
Where Are the Workers? Project launches website with new data and insights for Northeast Ohio
Wean Foundation Board of Directors Meets at Amphitheater
Where are the workers in Greater Akron? ‘Right under your nose,’ chamber president says
Survey reveals reasons behind labor shortage in Portage area
The Changing Reality of Human Resource Management
We finally know what happened to all those Cleveland workers in the Great Resignation: Today in Ohio
Will people rejoin the workforce? How many workers will quit this year? Survey of 5,000 Northeast Ohioans offers clues
Greater Cleveland Career Consortium aims to connect students to careers and solve talent gap
Virtual Roundtables Ask ‘Where Are the Workers?’
Improved literacy and numbers skills will create a larger pool of qualified workers: Laureen Atkins
New workforce survey highlights issues and solutions for employers during ongoing labor shortage
A Columbus-area call center hiring Cleveland-based workers? Discover expands hiring search for remote work
The Great Resignation, while hard on businesses, is putting workers in a position of power
Where Are the Workers? New data shows just how many employers are upping pay to attract and keep employees
Where are all the workers? Employers finding higher wages alone not enough to lure people
A survey of Northeast Ohio employers and workers aims to shed light on hiring struggles

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