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Which BEST describes the current overall labor situation in your geographic area? Are qualified people:?
How has the labor situation in your area changed since the beginning of the year? Are employees now:?
Do you think the labor market situation in your area will ease, tighten, or stay about the same throughout the remainder of the year?
(impact of easing labor market) Are you more selective in the people hired?
(impact of easing labor market) Where have you raised your selectivity most?
(impact of easing labor market) Are you waiting longer to fill openings?
(impact of easing labor market) Is there not as much pressure to meet employee or potential employee demands?
(impact of easing labor market) Is employee turnover falling?
(impact of easing labor market) Can you now hire people with skills you previously couldn’t?
Which BEST describes the reason that you have not been looking for people to hire?
How satisfied are you with your current workforce?
How many people have left your business, voluntarily or involuntarily, since the beginning of the year?
How many were asked to leave for disciplinary or non-performance reasons?
How many were laid off due to weaker sales, the end of a job, or other economic factors?
Is this year’s level of employee turnover more, less, or no different than at the same time one year ago?
How many people have you hired since the beginning of the year?
Did the new hire(s) fill an existing vacancy or a newly created position?
Do you expect to have a larger workforce by the end of the year, a smaller one, or one that is the same size as now?
(impact of tight labor market) Spent more time and effort training your people.
Does your increased training focus on:?
(impact of tight labor market) Gone without needed employees.
(impact of tight labor market) You personally required to work more hours.
(impact of tight labor market) Other employees required to work more hours.
(impact of tight labor market) You forced to limit operating hours, production, the number of jobs you take, etc.
(impact of tight labor market) Hired temporaries from temporary agencies.
(impact of tight labor market) Later hired one or more of these temporaries as a regular employee.
(impact of tight labor market) Out-bid other potential employers with higher compensation and/or better working conditions.
(impact of tight labor market) How did you outbid others? Did you offer:?
(impact of tight labor market) Spent more time and effort recruiting new employees.
(impact of tight labor market) What type of recruiting activity have you increased most?
What is the SINGLE BEST solution for the problems created for you by an inadequate supply of qualified employees? Is it:?
Why are you experiencing an adequate labor supply in your area when many areas are not? Do you think it is primarily because:?
As a general rule, is the better workforce strategy to:? Do you feel that way strongly?
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2001 ISSN - 1534-8326
William J. Dennis, Jr. NFIB Research Foundation