Warehouse Labor Costs: Why Unit Labor Costs Are Climbing 9% a Year

Why Warehouse Unit Labor Costs Are Climbing 9% a Year Since 2019, unit labor costs across the warehousing sector have risen 9.3% a year, according to BLS Industry Productivity data...

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Warehouse Labor Shortage: Why Hiring More People Isn’t a Strategy

Why the Warehouse Hiring Treadmill Keeps Spinning Post the role. Screen the candidates. Onboard the new hire. Lose them within the year. Post the role again. If that cycle sounds…

Warehouse Labor Optimization vs. Automation: What McKinsey and Gartner Actually Recommend

Why Warehouse Leaders Default to Automation When Labor Costs Rise When labor costs rise and throughput targets hold steady, the case for automation arrives ready-made. Reduce headcount dependency. Increase throughput…

What the 2026 Egg and Lettuce Recalls Reveal About Food Traceability Gaps

The Salmonella Egg Recall and Cyclospora Lettuce Outbreak, Explained Two recalls are currently moving through the U.S. food supply. On July 22, 2026, Midwest Poultry Services voluntarily recalled 1,589,577 dozen…

Cold Storage Warehouse Management Software: Why Your Freezer Team Doesn’t Care About the Heat Wave

While Half the Country Sweats, Your Freezer Team Has a Different Problem Right now, most of the country is stuck in a heat wave, hunting for shade or somewhere with…

Multi-Site Warehouse Benchmarking: Why Comparing Performance Across Your Locations Is So Hard

The Meeting You’ve Been In Before You’re in the business review. Three locations are on the table. Dallas pulled its numbers from the WMS. Toronto built its summary in a…

What is Warehouse Labor Management (And What Does Good Actually Look Like?)

Here’s a moment most shift supervisors have lived through: It’s midshift. The floor is active, tasks are moving, and nothing looks obviously broken. But the order count is behind, and…

What Real-Time Warehouse Data Really Means and Why Your WMS Isn’t Delivering It

It’s 10 a.m. and your inbound team is behind. A zone that was fully staffed at shift start has quickly thinned out. Two workers pulled to cover a dock situation…

The Hidden Economics of Multi-Client Warehousing

Sharing a warehouse sounds like a straightforward way to reduce overhead. Split the space, split the labor, split the costs. But for most 3PLs and warehouse operators running multi-client warehousing…

From Automation to Orchestration: The Missing Intelligence Layer

What Warehouse Automation Actually Delivers, and What It Doesn’t Over the past decade, warehouses have invested heavily in automation. Conveyors, goods-to-person systems, autonomous mobile robots, automated storage and retrieval systems—the…

Why Most Labor Programs Fail Before the Shift Even Starts

Most warehouse labor programs don’t fail because of bad systems, unrealistic standards, or unmotivated teams. They fail because supervisors are asked to manage performance without the visibility, structure, or time…

Labor Improvement: The Basics Every Warehouse Leader Needs

Every labor improvement conversation eventually runs into the same hard truth. You can’t manage what you don’t measure. Yet many warehouses try to drive productivity, coaching, and accountability without fully understanding what actually happens between clock…

5 Signs You Need a New Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Warehouse Management Systems are foundational to modern supply chain operations. When they work, they enable visibility, efficiency, and scalability. When they don’t, they erode performance, limit growth, and create risk across the operation. For…