Business View Magazine | November 2020

57 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 RAULL I & SONS our office,” Mark shares. “We’re landlocked; we have a road, a parking lot, and another business behind us; then we have our fabrication shop on the other side. But we need more space, so we are expanding up – we’re building a second floor over our main office. We’re going to cut a hole in the roof and build a two-story structure. Up is the only way we can go.” As is typical with companies involved in construction and skilled trades, one of Raulli & Sons’ challenges is finding replacements for an aging workforce. “I would say, in the next five years, we could see a good amount of people retiring and then, in the next ten years, we could see a large amount of people retiring,” Mark reveals. “So, we’re trying to find people now. Before COVID hit, we were trying to work with a welding program in the Syracuse city schools that they started a couple of years ago. When we do hire people, who don’t have the needed experience, we train them here. Our foremen are very experienced; 25 years of service is not unusual. So, new employees