Manufacturing Lags in Hiring but Has the Edge on Retention

Employers across the country, especially manufacturers, are currently struggling to pick up enough new hires to meet demand in what some have called a “Great Resignation” of people leaving their pandemic-era jobs. Despite plummeting numbers of people on unemployment assistance in the United States, manufacturing is ahead of the rest of the private economy in terms of jobs to fill and turnover, and behind it in terms of hiring.