According to the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport within the next five years 54% of the UK logistic businesses will have to face a serious lack of both skilled and unskilled staff. The reasons of such phenomenon are various: it has become quite difficult to recruit expert professionals, for instance IT engineers with specific know-how in the logistic field, as well as project managers and managers in general; at the same time, also unskilled labour is missing, especially warehouse operators, also due to the fact that, it is worth pointing it out – salaries are really low, the job itself is quite repetitive and boring and, last but not least, unemployment rates are finally decreasing. That is to say…
