One of the core values at WIKA is community involvement. That’s why employees from the Lawrenceville, Georgia, headquarters of WIKA USA volunteered to run – and steer – in the 9 th Annual Bed Race, a fundraiser organized by Family Promise of Gwinnett County to …
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WIKA USA Joins the Effort to Feed Hungry Children Worldwide
| Brent Shadix | WIKA insightWIKA is committed to being a responsible corporate citizen – at both the local and international level. The company’s largest volunteer effort to date in the U.S. was the 2018 From Hunger to Hope MobilePack event. One hundred employees in Lawrenceville, Georgia, …
Preserving Knowledge in the Age of Millennials
| Tony Maupin | WIKA insightMany businesses count on their employees to pass on institutional knowledge from one generation of employee to the next, and the changing lifestyle and work habits of millennials could threaten this generational-knowledge model. The problem is particularly acute in …
Creating a Culture of Workplace Safety
| Tony Maupin | WIKA insightWorkplace safety cannot be governed by rules. No matter how comprehensive or well thought out your safety rules and regulations are, rules can't create safe working conditions. Only people can maintain a safe workplace. All the safety rules in the world won't stop …
The Engineering Brain Drain: How Does This Affect You?
| Tony Maupin | WIKA insightIn the chemical and petroleum industries, instrumentation engineers are becoming hard to find—as is engineering talent across the board. Accordingly, it might be useful to reflect on the following lead from a back issue of Time magazine: “The U.S., the world's …