Olivia Thilges, a Gen Z employee at Bloom Floral in Algona, Iowa, has been with the shop for two years. The shop has made supporting young workers,...
Is Your Company Ready for the Gen Z Workforce?
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Recruit ‘Gen Create’
Recruiting and retaining employees has never been more difficult. And for two generations, there’s been  a decline in floral design interest among...
Ease Your Workforce Woes
Finding and keeping employees has never been easy — and the pandemic has only heightened the challenge for floral business owners. In the Mar/April...
SAF Offers Suggestions to Department of Labor on Proposed Overtime Rule
As noted previously in Week In Review, the Trump Administration proposed new overtime regulations. Although not nearly as burdensome as the rule...
Washington Post Highlights Challenges and Potential of Floral Industry Workforce
A major national newspaper recently highlighted the challenge of engaging younger professionals in horticulture fields — and the potential rewards...
Ohio Nursery Subject of ICE Raid
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents arrested more than 100 employees at an Ohio gardening and landscaping company on Tuesday. The...