The Workforce Shortage is About More Than Money

Eric Alstrom, president of Danfoss Power Solutions, said manufacturers have to do more than simply provide a heftier paycheck to attract and retain manufacturing workers. “We are hard at work in all the communities where we are, of course, working closely with the communities, but also try to make people enthusiastic about a manufacturing job,” Alstrom told Power & Motion. “And that also means that we as an employer need to be better than we were in the past for taking care of the people. And it's not just wages, but it's also doing things for the community, doing things for the families in the community and being close to the issues in the community, frankly. And wherever we do work now, we're doing that.”