Where Are the Workers?

For the latest updates on this analysis, ways to engage with the data and implications for responding to the evolution of work, please visit wherearetheworkers.com.
To learn more about the partners behind this work and how the research that produced this analysis developed over time, explore research updates and past news coverage below.
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?
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.
Strengthening Workplaces
Where Are the Teachers?
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
Who’s staying and who’s quitting work right now
Short-staffed: Employers must adapt to worker sentiment post-COVID-19
Where are the workers? Employers must adapt to worker sentiment post-COVID-19
Op-ed: Being a bad employer is never a competitive advantage
Lack of data makes it tough to measure true scope of teacher shortage
What makes a business an employer of choice?
Teacher burnout is real, and it’s leading to a shortage of educators in some areas
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?’

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