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HR’s Commitment Is What Engages Blue-Collar Workers

December 14, 2017

Via: SHRM

As analysts and executives wring their hands about how to excite a younger and more demanding workforce, out in the real world many HR professionals face another challenge: Engaging the older, less-connected blue-collar worker.

These are the truck drivers, warehouse staff and retail sales people who move cargo or work the cash register and, when you get right down to it, actually operate the business. They’re the semi-skilled and low-skilled workers who haven’t obtained a college degree and probably never will. To them, the point of working most often is to make a living and support their families, not to change the world and get rich doing it.

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