244,000 announced reshoring jobs, construction spending hits record highs – yet manufacturing employment keeps declining…
There’s a sharp disconnect between efforts to bring jobs back home and reality. The reshoring revival everyone’s celebrating? It comes with a hidden crisis of beautiful new facilities and no one to work in them.
The uncomfortable truth: 80% of Americans want more factory jobs, but only 25% would actually work in one.
The problem isn't about skills shortages or training gaps – it's about a fundamental worker attitude that's threatening America's entire manufacturing renaissance.
The reshoring reality check: When political promises meet production floors
Investment vs. Employment Gap
Billions invested in facilities while manufacturing loses jobs and remains well below 2023 peaks.
Modern Manufacturing Misconceptions
Workers still picture outdated factories instead of today's clean, technology-driven environments.
Hiring Timeline Challenge
The average time-to-fill is 53 days, yet reshoring schedules demand immediate workforce deployment.
But innovative leaders aren't waiting for attitudes to change – they're building solutions that work right now.
As others are faced with empty production lines, strategic manufacturers implement hybrid staffing approaches to bridge the gap between reshoring announcements and actual production. In doing so, they turn workforce challenges into operational advantages that position them to dominate as reshoring accelerates.
Our latest report explores what’s happening and reveals effective solutions to help you:
✅ Develop staffing partnerships that provide flexibility to adapt to reshoring timelines (while reducing fixed labor costs)
✅ Address manufacturing perception problems using targeted recruitment campaigns to showcase modern facility realities
✅ Implement rapid deployment solutions that align worker availability with facility opening schedules – instead of last-minute scrambling
✅ Turn worker attitude challenges into recruitment advantages while others struggle with outdated approaches
✅ Use reshoring uncertainty as a strategic opportunity by building workforce solutions that scale with actual production needs
Turning America's Manufacturing Comeback Into Bottom-Line Results
The reshoring movement has the potential to be America's greatest manufacturing opportunity in decades, except success takes more than policy incentives and capital investment. Solving this workforce challenge – those 500,000 (and growing) unfilled positions – takes solutions that bridge the gap between political promises and production reality.
Our analysis combines official economic data with industry studies and reports on manufacturers who have successfully navigated workforce challenges. More than simply theoretical approaches, you will gain insights from businesses that have turned reshoring concerns into profitable production.