While the floor covering industry has been largely focused on the immediate challenges of recruiting and retaining skilled labor, attending to the long view of the industry’s future and what we’ll do to attract the next generation of installers remains just as pressing.
How will the industry engage this new generation? What will attract them to the trade? How will we balance their needs with maintaining the professional standards our industry has worked to establish? These questions are still largely unanswered, at least in practice.