What makes up the DNA of a competitive workforce?
There are the tangible factors that are easily calculated — average salary, housing costs, dominant local industries — this is the “low hanging fruit” of what makes a city competitive in the workforce. And then there are the intangible factors — job satisfaction, work/life balance, measurement of happiness — that are still measurable in one way or another but much more qualitative than quantitative.
While the fluctuation of competitive workforces is very much organic, it’s up to HR professionals to stay ahead of trends and figure out how to use them, not control them.
