Shoulder Season

There’s no ‘shoulder season’ in building and infrastructure projects, particularly in the contracting sector:  you’re either going full-out and are frantically looking for staff to fill the gaps, or you’re cutting back staff, cutting back overhead costs, and cutting back non-essentials. 

So it’s difficult to commit consistently to staff training:  a business either hasn’t got the steady income to indulge in the money cost of training, or, the business has so much work on that while there might be profits being made, the managers have difficulty with indulging the time cost of letting their staff out for a day’s training.