Adecco, a well-known temporary staffing agency, has officially opened a new location in Crescent Springs off Buttermilk Pike. The opening comes as the region strains under changing population demographics coupled with continued economic growth.
Adecco hosted a ribbon cutting for their new location Tuesday morning. Found in a plaza storefront on Anderson Road off Buttermilk Pike, this is the second location the staffing agency has had in the Northern Kentucky region, the previous one being located in Florence. Across the river in Ohio, Adecco has locations in Hamilton and Butler Counties.
“We are honored to officially join this vibrant community again,” said Brittany Oglesby, Adecco’s Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati associate area director.
Members of the local branch of the Chamber of Commerce as well as Kentucky Rep. Steve Doan (R-Erlanger) attended the ribbon cutting and spoke about the need for workforce development in the region, as well as Adecco’s services generally. Doan is even a former Adecco client. His job assignments included building medical devices, working at Jim Beam’s distilling in Cincinnati and doing other short-term job assignments before becoming an attorney and elected official.
“Those temporary jobs were critical to me,” Doan said. “They really were. It gave me a lot of great life experience and a great understanding. So in my position in Frankfort, I look around at at our state, and one of those critical issues that we have is workforce development. It is filling jobs. It is making sure that we have talented people that can work.”
Branch manager Catherine Kaiser said that many of the temporary positions Adecco would staff were in warehousing, healthcare and customer service. Oglesby said that hospitality, light manufacturing and clerical positions were also available.
Members of the Chamber of Commerce spoke about the need for filling open jobs in the region. Northern Kentucky, Chamber Vice President of Talent Strategies Nancy Spivey and Senior Vice President Gene Kirchner, spoke about an 1,800-member survey the Chamber completes every year, which consistently showed a need for good workers.
“Talent strategies, or talent, has been [the members’] number one, probably for the last three to four years, and that’s all over the board,” Spivey said. “It’s at all levels, from entry-level to professional. We just have a declining population of individuals working these days and continued economic growth. So, we’re blessed in our community because we have a lot of jobs; it’s finding the quality people to fill those jobs and to keep them actively employed. So, the gap is real.”
In the strictest sense, the Northern Kentucky region’s population has been growing, about 8.13%, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, but the birth rate is declining and, Spivey pointed out, the current workforce is getting older. Baby boomers are already beginning to retire, and those combined factors are likely to cause vacuums in the workforce in the future.
“The number one concern is talent,” Kirchner said, adding that the concern was unlikely to change anytime soon.
“We need resources like Adecco in our community to help us really address that need for our employers across the region,” Kirchner said.
The Adecco location can be found at 2446 Anderson Road in Crescent Springs. Walk-ins are welcome.