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Mastering the Reshoring Boom: 5 Tips for Staffing Your New Facility
The drumbeat of reshoring is growing louder across the United States. Fueled by tariffs, geopolitical tensions, supply chain vulnerabilities, and a renewed focus on domestic production, manufacturers are bringing operations back home…

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Priority #1: Manufacturing Workforce Development
Based on my 20 years consulting as a talent specialist and recruiter, one of the major challenges U.S. factory expansions and startups face is finding technically skilled workers. There are a host of contributing factors…

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  • Cracking the Code: Reshoring is real. So is hope.

    Manufacturing jobs are coming back to the USA! In September, Harry Moser, founder/president of The Reshoring Initiative and Kathy Nunnally, president of Regions Recruiting, released their 2025 Reshoring Survey. Reshoring is defined as the practice of transferring a business operation that was moved overseas back to the country from which…

  • Reshoring Survey Reveals 4 Priorities for US Reindustrialization

    The 2025 USA Reshoring Survey, conducted among 500 U.S. manufacturers in collaboration with the Reshoring Initiative and Regions Recruiting, aimed to derive three key insights. First, to determine the strategy or the “why” driving OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) to reshore; second, to understand the points of view from the contract manufacturers’…

  • Industry Today: Strength and Strategy

    Reindustrializing America is impossible without reshoring, foreign direct investment (FDI), and strong industrial policy.

  • Results of 2025 reshoring survey, part 2

    In the first column of our three-part series, we examined the 2025 Reshoring Survey from the OEM’s point of view. Forty five percent of relevant respondents were OEMs compared to 55 percent being contract manufacturers.

  • Can We Hit Goals for Reshoring American Manufacturing?

    I have written about, listened to, and encouraged research on reshoring for 25 years. As pressure increases to bring back manufacturing from overseas, I’m excited but skeptical about the effort’s short-term timing and immediate prospects. It’s not just the politics of large, blanket tariffs that concern me. Factory construction and…

  • Reports Reveal “Game-Changers” For U.S. Reshoring

    The recent 2025 USA Reshoring Survey, a collaboration between the Reshoring Initiative and Regions Recruiting, confirms that the skilled labor shortage is a significant barrier to foreign direct investment (FDI) and reshoring efforts in the United States. This feedback is consistent with reports that factory startup and expansion projects in the United States…

  • The Reshoring Initiative Offers A Roadmap To Accelerate Reshoring

    Reindustrializing America is impossible without reshoring, foreign direct investment (FDI), and strong industrial policy. The Reshoring Initiative’s 2024 Annual Report reveals tremendous progress with 2024 job announcements…

  • Results of 2025 reshoring survey, part 2

    In the first column of our three-part series, we examined the 2025 Reshoring Survey from the OEM’s point of view.

  • 2025 Reshoring Survey: 59% of Shops Reshored or are Quoting

    A core goal of U.S. trade policy over the last decade has been reshoring manufacturing back to the United States and strengthening the domestic industry for economic and national security. 

  • Hiring in the Age of Tariffs: Manufacturing Leaders Sound Off

    During the fourth of a series of webinars on how manufacturers are dealing with tariff-driven changes to the economy, company HR leaders, recruiters and non-profits share ideas on what businesses can do now as the labor market remains tight.