With unemployment at a 30-year low, employees are hard to find and retain.
As a result, food manufacturers are expanding training to offer career incentives.
As the national unemployment rate has hovered at a 30-year low of 4 to 4.1 percent over the past six months, food manufacturers found another motive for improving their training programs: attracting and retaining new employees. Survey respondents report using a growing mix of both internal and external resources to expand their training programs. Only 7 percent reported that their companies conduct no formal training.