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50+ Construction Workforce Retention and Turnover Statistics for 2026

50+ Construction Workforce Retention and Turnover Statistics for 2026

Construction’s retention game has flipped. Quit rates hit a nine-year low in mid-2025, and February 2026 posted the lowest hiring rate the BLS has tracked…

AI Construction Statistics for 2026

AI Construction Statistics for 2026

Construction AI adoption is growing fast, despite 79% of the industry not yet moving past early testing. Where companies have implemented AI, results depend almost…

Behind Bridgit AI: What we’ve learned building our AI stack

Behind Bridgit AI: What we’ve learned building our AI stack

This post was written by Vincent Seguin, Bridgit’s Chief Technology Officer Bridgit AI has now been in the hands of customers for several months, and we’re…

How Contractors Use Revenue Per Person Per Month to Benchmark Staffing Efficiency

How Contractors Use Revenue Per Person Per Month to Benchmark Staffing Efficiency

The construction labor narrative is dominated by the shortage, with 92% of firms reporting difficulty hiring. Sit in a portfolio review with your CFO and…

How Team Size and Project Duration Change by Build Type and What That Means for Staffing

How Team Size and Project Duration Change by Build Type and What That Means for Staffing

Skilled trades wages on data center construction sites now run roughly 32% above non-data-center construction work, with specialty roles routinely clearing $250,000. The same crafts…

The Rookie Ratio and How to Balance Experience on Construction Project Teams

The Rookie Ratio and How to Balance Experience on Construction Project Teams

If you run operations at a general contractor, you already track headcount and utilization across your projects. The balance of experienced and newer team members…

How to manage construction teams working across multiple locations

How to manage construction teams working across multiple locations

Your Phoenix office is scrambling to staff a new $20 million healthcare project. Meanwhile, your Denver team has two senior project managers with significant healthcare…

How Construction Project Managers Use ChatGPT

How Construction Project Managers Use ChatGPT

ChatGPT is the first AI tool most construction PMs try, and for a narrow set of tasks, it’s genuinely useful. Meeting minutes, daily reports, email…

Getting Started with AI for General Contractors

Getting Started with AI for General Contractors

If someone on your leadership team just came back from a conference asking why you’re not using AI yet, take a breath. 79% of the…

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Benchmark your workforce strategy against real data

See how top contractors are managing their workforce, pursuing projects, and retaining their people.

Your first 100 days: Building an AI workforce planning strategy

Does your organization have a clear, actionable strategy for unlocking AI efficiency in workforce planning?

The ultimate workforce planning playbook

How do I run an effective workforce planning meeting? Which experience data matters most? Who should make updates to my workforce plans?

The ultimate workforce planning playbook tackles these questions and more! It includes 12 pro-level plays to build a winning strategy, plus more baseball metaphors than you can swing a bat at.

2025 State of Workforce Planning

We partnered with Construction Dive to benchmark the challenges and opportunities facing workforce planning, and how to  future-proof your strategy.

Learn all about Bridgit’s enterprise implementation

Standardize your organization’s workforce planning across all regions and offices.

Bridgit walkthrough guide

In this guide, learn how Bridgit connects your people data and project data to make your workforce planning efforts faster and more accurate.

Navigating Workforce Planning Challenges with Bridgit: A Guide for General Contractors

Explore the business implications of common workforce planning challenges and discover how Bridgit helps contractors drive better outcomes.

Workforce Planning Checklist

Easily identify the workforce planning features that matter most to your business and ensure that planning tools meet your expectations with this simple checklist.

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How to run effective workforce planning meetings

Navigate staffing challenges and foster a culture of proactive planning with our expert workforce planning guide.

How Workforce Intelligence Deliver Beyond Operational Excellence

How workforce intelligence delivers beyond operational excellence

Learn how cloud-based technology is transforming workforce planning and labor coordination.

How effective construction workforce management leads to strategic project pipelines

See how effective workforce planning can help stay ahead of labor demands and create a strategic project pipeline.

The business case for workforce planning automation

Learn how five top contractors have transformed workforce planning, improved project staffing, and fostered a more collaborative planning process.

Strategic Workforce Management – Going from spreadsheet maintenance to workforce planning mastery

Steps any contractor can take to be more strategic with their workforce management.

Bridgit Bench vs Spreadsheets

Bridgit Bench vs Spreadsheets

Look at how Bridgit Bench stacks up against your current process with feature comparisons, integrations, and customer support.

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AI in workforce planning: Breakthrough or bubble?

Watch Peter Cotugno and Lauren Lake tackle the AI questions on everyone’s mind.

3 key questions answered with experience tracking

Lauren shares three real-world ways contractors are using experience tracking to gain a competitive edge.

MYCON General Contractors saves hundreds of hours each week with Bridgit

Discover how MYCON General Contractors saves hundreds of hours each week with Bridgit.

Workforce planning “hacks” from Bridgit power users

Two Bridgit power users share their unique tips and tricks.

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How strategic workforce planning helped fuel Power Construction’s growth | Bridgit case study

Matthew Walsh, Senior Operations Technology Manager at Power Construction, shares how implementing Bridgit workforce planning software in 2020 became essential to managing their rapid expansion. After acquiring a national design-build firm, Power needed a solution that could handle complex multi-state operations, employee location tracking, and cross-departmental collaboration.

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Bridgit: Your go-to workforce planning tool for construction

Discover how Bridgit brings all your people and project info together in one place—no more scattered spreadsheets or guesswork.

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3 workforce strategies to counter uncertainty

Bridgit co-founder Lauren Lake has spent much of 2025 on the road, meeting many of the top contractors in North America.

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Workforce planning secrets behind Gray Construction’s growth

Workforce planning has undergone a transformation. The data that once lived on whiteboards can now be accessed on purpose-built platforms, where it can inform everything from pursuits, to hiring, to expansion plans.

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How Suffolk built a seamless workforce planning flow using Bridgit and Ediphi

Suffolk manages one of the largest construction portfolios in the country — and for years, their estimating and workforce planning lived in completely separate worlds. Data got lost. Staffing meetings dragged on for hours. Projects were understaffed until someone happened to become available. So they built something different.

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How Pariseault Builders embraced the future of workforce planning with Bridgit AI

What happens when your workforce spreadsheet is 50% accurate at best — and completely wrong within 90 minutes of being updated? For Pariseault Builders, a general contractor with a deep healthcare construction practice, that was the reality for years. COO Chris Integlia knew something had to change.

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Behind the Build – May 2026 | What’s New at Bridgit

In this episode of Behind the Build, Kate from Customer Success and Dave from Product walk through everything Bridgit shipped so far in 2026 — and there’s a lot to cover.

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Ask Bridgit live: Real prompts you should be using

Your workforce data is one of the most valuable assets your operations team has — but only if you can access it quickly, query it confidently, and act on it without friction. That’s exactly what Ask Bridgit is designed to do.

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The signals hiding inside construction workforce data | Bridgit Benchmark report

The labor shortage in construction isn’t just about headcount — it’s about experience. Bridgit CEO and Co-Founder Mallorie Brodie breaks down findings from Bridgit’s latest Benchmark report, built on data from 233 companies, 114,000 people, and roughly 40% of the ENR 400.

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How CPPI Went from 70% to 99% Staffing Efficiency with Bridgit

CPPI, a multi-office general contractor in Florida, was drowning in manual staffing processes — four-hour executive meetings, whiteboards, and spreadsheets — with no reliable way to plan 12–36 months ahead.

Customer stories

Barringer Construction

Learn how Barringer Construction transformed resource management with Bridgit.

Power Construction’s

Learn how Power Construction’s transformation from spreadsheets to strategic workforce planning enabled growth across 14 states.

MYCON General Contractors

Learn how MYCON General Contractors solved their workforce planning challenges and unlocked a single source of truth with Bridgit.

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