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How workforce planning keeps your best people from leaving
Picture your best superintendent. The one who knows the quirks of major clients, who can walk onto any jobsite and get things moving, and truly cares about training new team members. Now imagine them handing in their two-week notice. Construction companies lose billions annually to turnover, and most leadership teams assume it’s about money. Here’s…
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Building balanced construction project teams with data-driven workforce planning
Walk onto any successful construction site and you’ll notice something striking about team composition: The best crews aren’t just the ones with the most experience. They deliberately mix veteran professionals with emerging talent, creating a balance that ensures both immediate project success and long-term organizational health. But this balance isn’t just an accident. Just like…
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Behind Bridgit AI: How construction’s first workforce planning assistant was built
This post was written by Vincent Seguin, Bridgit’s VP of Engineering At Bridgit, we’ve been working incredibly hard over the past several months to achieve our first AI launch, and we couldn’t be more excited to share it with the world. It’s an important milestone for our company, but more importantly, for everyone who relies…
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How to transform construction volatility into competitive advantage
The construction industry in North American is at a turning point. After growing 4.5% in 2024, the United States construction sector now expects a sharp slowdown with forecasted growth of only 1-2% in 2025. At the same time, Canada’s construction sector shrank by 1.8% in 2024 but shows signs of bouncing back. These different paths…
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The hidden cost of data silos in construction workforce planning
The construction industry has a $1.8 trillion problem hiding in plain sight. According to the 2025 State of Workforce Planning report, 93% of construction leaders say labor shortages are impacting their operations, yet most are still trying to solve this crisis with disconnected spreadsheets and siloed systems that make the problem worse. When Malia Ahmed,…
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The Bridgit you love, now even smarter
Today, Bridgit gets a lot smarter, with a round of updates built to supercharge workforce planning across your organization. Leading the charge is a more accurate way to calculate commute distance, plus richer historical-project insights—along with several under-the-hood enhancements to make your everyday tasks faster and easier. Commute Distance Starting today, Bridgit Maps pairs every…
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The leaders who shape Bridgit: Our customer advisory board
We first created Bridgit Bench because we kept hearing the same thing from construction leaders: workforce planning was too manual, too reactive, and too disconnected from the bigger picture. Those conversations sparked the idea that turned Bridgit into what it is today! As we’ve grown, customers have continued to hold a crucial role in shaping…
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13 battle-tested Bridgit tips you can borrow
Borrow these 13 battle-tested Bridgit tips When Stephen Barnett joined Sitzler as senior business analyst, he inherited a familiar challenge for most construction firms—managing 250+ team members across a vast geographical area using nothing more than spreadsheets (and hope). Six months later, his systematic approach to implementing Bridgit delivered a complete transformation of how they…
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How AI and automation is changing construction workforce management
Have you ever seen videos of Boston Dynamics’ “Spot” robots? These remarkable machines handle different terrains and environments to become robotic assistants. Boston Dynamics’ Spot has already walked over 9,000 miles in real construction operations—the equivalent of going from Boston to the South Pole. Spot is one representation—exciting to some, creepy to others—of the technological…
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New workforce planning report details how construction leaders manage labor challenges
Workforce optimization isn’t a new problem in construction. Despite ongoing efforts to make the most of their teams, contractors face persistent labor shortages and other workforce constraints that stand in the way. In response to labor supply challenges, many contractors have turned their focus to increasing the performance of their existing teams. Too often, however,…
