Changing Search for Employees

• 1Which BEST describes the current overall labor situation in your geographic area? Are qualified people:?
• 2How has the labor situation in your area changed since the beginning of the year? Are employees now:?
• 3Do you think the labor market situation in your area will ease, tighten, or stay about the same throughout the remainder of the year?
• 4A(impact of easing labor market) Are you more selective in the people hired?
• 4A1(impact of easing labor market) Where have you raised your selectivity most?
• 4B(impact of easing labor market) Are you waiting longer to fill openings?
• 4C(impact of easing labor market) Is there not as much pressure to meet employee or potential employee demands?
• 4D(impact of easing labor market) Is employee turnover falling?
• 4E(impact of easing labor market) Can you now hire people with skills you previously couldn’t?
• 5Which BEST describes the reason that you have not been looking for people to hire?
• 6How satisfied are you with your current workforce?
• 7How many people have left your business, voluntarily or involuntarily, since the beginning of the year?
• 8How many were asked to leave for disciplinary or non-performance reasons?
• 9How many were laid off due to weaker sales, the end of a job, or other economic factors?
• 10Is this year’s level of employee turnover more, less, or no different than at the same time one year ago?
• 11How many people have you hired since the beginning of the year?
• 12Did the new hire(s) fill an existing vacancy or a newly created position?
• 13Do 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?
• 14A(impact of tight labor market) Spent more time and effort training your people.
• 14A1Does your increased training focus on:?
• 14B(impact of tight labor market) Gone without needed employees.
• 14B1a(impact of tight labor market) You personally required to work more hours.
• 14B1b(impact of tight labor market) Other employees required to work more hours.
• 14B1c(impact of tight labor market) You forced to limit operating hours, production, the number of jobs you take, etc.
• 14C(impact of tight labor market) Hired temporaries from temporary agencies.
• 14C1(impact of tight labor market) Later hired one or more of these temporaries as a regular employee.
• 14D(impact of tight labor market) Out-bid other potential employers with higher compensation and/or better working conditions.
• 14D1(impact of tight labor market) How did you outbid others? Did you offer:?
• 14E(impact of tight labor market) Spent more time and effort recruiting new employees.
• 14E1(impact of tight labor market) What type of recruiting activity have you increased most?
• 15What is the SINGLE BEST solution for the problems created for you by an inadequate supply of qualified employees? Is it:?Top 100 question
• 16Why are you experiencing an adequate labor supply in your area when many areas are not? Do you think it is primarily because:?
• 17As a general rule, is the better workforce strategy to:? Do you feel that way strongly?Top 100 question

Volume 1, Issue 1, 2001
ISSN 1534-8326

William J. Dennis, Jr.
NFIB Research Foundation