BUILD ON DRIFT (PART 1). Plenty of work, but thousands of hands short: “Eager to work, that’s all we ask”

By investing billions in construction, the government wants to speed up our economic engine after corona. But who will build all that? The sector is groaning under an unprecedented tightness in the labor market. To cope with the aging population and the outflow of young people, 18,000 new construction workers are needed every year. Even those who have never seen a hammer or a trowel up close can start right away. “It’s five to twelve.”

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