Industrial executives or representatives from Reno County and the vicinity told Kansas Department of Commerce Secretary David Toland Wednesday that their greatest need is workers.
“I heard what I hear across the state, which is workforce, workforce, workforce is what is limiting our businesses from growing. There’s no easy solution to this challenge. It’s going to take a lot of creativity and looking to applicant pools that might have been overlooked in the past and doing recruitment that we haven’t done in the past,” Toland said after the approximately hour-long roundtable at the Hutchison/Reno County Chamber of Commerce.
“The intensity of the workforce discussion was higher here than it usually is. I’m not sure how to analyze that,” Toland said, comparing what he heard here to some other stops around the state.
(Read more: Local – The Hutchinson News)