Biggest Concern for US CEOs: ‘Workforce, Workforce, Workforce’
- Leaders aren’t able to find enough workers with right skills
- US has almost two job openings for every unemployed person
Gina Raimondo, US secretary of commerce, speaks during an interview in Washington, DC.
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US chief executives are most concerned about a lack of workers with the necessary skills, said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, adding that most of them are cautiously optimistic amid several external risks.
The main worry she hears from CEOs is “workforce, workforce, workforce,” Raimondo said in an interview Thursday in Bloomberg’s Washington bureau. “We can’t hire enough, we can’t hire fast enough, we can’t hire people with the skills we need.”