Arcoro’s Insights: Looking Back on 2024 - Arcoro

A business can’t effectively serve its customers if it doesn’t fully understand the challenges those customers face every day. And it’s in this understanding that the best solutions arise. With a focus on construction HR, Arcoro offers a unique understanding and brings industry experts who can speak directly to customers’ struggles and give advice as to how Arcoro’s HR technology can help solve workforce challenges.

Arcoro has offered expert advice and guidance throughout 2024, as highlighted in several industry publications. These insights and problem-solving suggestions have helped customers not only reduce or eliminate everyday tasks but have given them tools to become more strategic and compliant, leading to better overall business decisions and outcomes.

Here are some articles that feature insights from Arcoro construction workforce experts:

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  The Long Game: Replenishing the construction industry’s bench one student at a time.

  • ​Carrie Gardenhire, Director of Association Partnerships, contributed an article to Roads & Bridges that highlights how HR tech can help construction companies build a stronger talent pipeline by targeting student interns and apprentices. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) directs $350 billion toward federal highway programs. Construction companies want to expand and accept additional projects, but hiring challenges are causing some restraint. In 2023, construction job openings reached record numbers, emphasizing the severity of the industry’s labor shortage. Read the entire article HERE.
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  Barriers That Are Hurting Your Hiring and Recruitment Efforts

  • ​Samantha Stephenson, training manager, authored an article for Construction Executive that focused on hiring more female workers as a viable solution to the ever-present workforce shortage. Over the past decade, the construction industry has expanded its workforce by tapping into new segments of workers to find much needed talent. For example, women have seen steady employment gains in recent years. The number of women working in construction grew from 802,000 to 1.2 million between 2012 and 2020. Additionally, a record number of women worked in trades jobs in 2022. Read the entire article HERE.
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  Embracing Tech to Streamline HR

  • ​CFO Tamara Saunders discussed how HR tech can be a revenue generator in an article in CFMA’s Building Profits. The article highlights how HR tech can help streamline processes so construction companies have more resources to grow. Human resources (HR) departments are often viewed as cost centers that regularly incur expenses and rarely earn money for their companies. Though this is a misconception, it can be extremely challenging to strategically position an HR department and streamline its processes so it contributes to revenue growth. Living in an era of technological abundance is supplying construction companies and contractors with the tools needed to thrive and ultimately transform HR departments so they contribute to revenue growth for their companies. Read the entire article HERE.
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  The Power of Time and Attendance Data

  • ​Jenn Ordonez in Rocky Mountain Construction showcased the immense abilities of digital time tracking and leveraging the essential data it provides. Time and attendance technology has evolved from its traditional application as a “clock-in, clock-out” timecard tracker into a powerful business intelligence tool that can support a construction firm’s long-term growth strategy. As the industry slowly transitions from paper time entries to digital time-tracking tools, business leaders gain invaluable access to data that can revolutionize processes at all rungs of the company ladder. This includes enhancing estimating accuracy, optimizing workforce management, and ensuring compliance with evolving local, state, and federal regulations. Read the entire article HERE.
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  How Time Tracking Has Evolved in 25 Years (and How Many Contractors Haven’t)

  • ​For ExakTime’s 25th anniversary, Michael Dickran shared his perspective on how time tracking has changed over the years in this article in CONTRACTOR. Many construction companies are still living in the age of Y2K, relying on paper punch cards and timesheets that expose the business to tremendous risk and potential litigation. In the world of construction and technology, a lot has changed since 1999. The value of public federal construction in the US has more than doubled since that year when “blogs,” “cord-cutting,” and “texting” made their lexicographical debut. Today, the construction sector is bustling with head-turning technology that’s taking the built environment to new heights and tech-savvy professionals who are leveraging these new tools in innovative ways. Read the entire article here.
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  Tracking Trade Talent

  • ​Recruiting specialist Max Clement contributed an article on attracting talent in construction to Modern Steel Construction. Attracting talent – especially in the trades – requires a multifaceted and tailored approach to job seekers’ lives and trends. Skilled trade work is a unique career path with many benefits. Job security remains steady as long as the industry continues growing and expanding, career growth opportunities are plentiful, and workers have a tangible impact on the world around them that many find rewarding. Read the entire article here.
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  AI is Changing how to Manage Roofing Crews Safely

  • ​AI is gaining traction not only for process efficiency but also to help make job sites safer for workers. In this article published in Roofing Contractor, Arcoro’s Chief Product Officer, Kevin Berens, talks about uses for AI that enhance vital communication and workforce oversight. AI is here and roofing contractors can use it to enhance safety, communication and risk management on projects of all scopes and sizes. Managing a roofing crew of two or three workers won’t send most supervisors into a cold sweat. But what about a crew of 20 or 30? And what if your job site isn’t a 30,000-square-foot office building but a 300,000-square-foot manufacturing facility? The larger the job, the more challenging it is to manage. Read the entire article here.
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  Labour Shortage: Challenges, Considerations And Solutions to Attract Electrical Talent

  • ​There’s not one single solution for attracting and retaining talent, as Imari Bogen shares in this article in Electrical Line. The construction industry is brimming with opportunities for electrical professionals to work and advance their careers. According to Statistics Canada, there were 4,865 job vacancies for electricians (except for industrial and power systems) in the third quarter of 2023. And while the total openings have decreased by 410 jobs (approximately 8%) since the same period in 2022, the race for companies to attract top talent is as steadfast as ever, with thousands of positions still in play. Read the entire article here.
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  Hiring Veterans and Helping Them Thrive

  • ​Demetrius Austin, Arcoro’s Senior Vice President of Engineering and Integrations and a Navy veteran, wrote an article for Rocky Mountain News about how construction companies can help those transitioning from the military to civilian work thrive. Finding, hiring, and retaining construction workers continues to be a struggle for an overwhelming majority of contractors. Approximately 94 percent of firms said they’re struggling to fill openings in the 2024 Workforce Survey conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America and Arcoro. In turn, 54 percent of respondents have experienced project delays and 80 percent reported having at least one project canceled, scaled back, or postponed. If you’re serious about getting ahead in the war for construction talent, consider doubling your efforts to hire from military and veteran populations. Read the entire article here.

Arcoro understands that sharing our knowledge and expertise with the construction industry helps both our customers and the industry as a whole to face workforce and business challenges. We’re proud to have shared our employees’ knowledge and expertise throughout the year with so many great publications.

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