Tight Labor Market an Issue Then and Now

摘要

This October 1998 inside cover reveals how cyclical our industry can be. Back then, an early 1990s spate of cuts to in-house packaging departments among end users, in favor of outsourcing, led most to believe there must be a large population of skilled personnel just waiting to retake their jobs in packaging when they were needed. But in the later '90s, with economy humming along before the dotcom bubble burst in 2001, the labor market tightened. When looking for packaging pros, end users found them to be more elusive than they assumed. We're seeing a similar pattern today.