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WorkForge
Talent Growth Check

How does your organization identify your frontline employees' next step — supervisor or otherwise?

10 questions, about 3 minutes. This check looks at your organization as a whole — not any single plant or employee — and shows how you identify and prepare your frontline employees for their next step today, and where the gap is worth closing first.

~25%
of food plant workers may retire by 2030
40%
average annual turnover in food manufacturing
33%
of salary to replace one frontline employee
82%
of the time, the wrong person gets picked for management

The industry is losing experienced people faster than it's building new ones to replace them. The Workforce Experience Committee's report is clear that the fix isn't just more training data — it's whether an organization actually separates people ready to lead from people who are simply great at the job, and backs that decision with data instead of memory. This check shows where your organization stands on both.

 
AREA 01
Onboarding
AREA 02
Retention
AREA 03
Manager or Individual Contributor
AREA 04
Readiness