Florida has a workforce crisis and it’s impacting Florida’s employers and job seekers in dramatic and negative ways, and yet it’s an opportunity business leaders should leverage.
Pre-COVID, despite Florida creating 1 in every 11 new U.S. jobs (2015-2020), the number one concern among Florida’s job creators was the inability to find quality, and qualified, talent to fill open jobs.
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and with 493,216 open jobs and only 466,000 unemployed persons, Florida has more open jobs than people actively looking for work. In other words, the situation has gone from bad to worse.
Big picture, Florida needs to create 1.63 million net new jobs by 2030 to prepare for the 4 million more residents that will call Florida home at a time when the types of occupations that are, and will be, in demand are experiencing significant shortages of skilled workers. The future of work is the number one issue of our time and together we are solving it.
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