Attention Seacoast employers! What can we do to help?

During a recent strategic planning process, the WHC renewed its commitment to local employers who are troubled by the region’s high housing costs.

Do you represent a midsize to large employer? Are you concerned that your employees may have limited housing options within a reasonable commuting distance? Does this issue present a challenge to your long-term business model?

If so, we need to hear from you! Your input will help us shape our programming to better meet your needs.

Through a series of focus groups, WHC engages employers in a dialogue to learn what is important to them inmaintaing a stable workforce and how workforce housing can benefit them. These focus groups occur regularly throughout the year, so please contact Lisa Henderson at (603) 205-0539 or email her.

Thank you to Peter Bergh and students from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire who volunteered their time to research the housing concerns of area employers.

We appreciate the thoughtful contributions of senior leaders from several of the Seacoast's largest employers:

Jay McSharry – Owner – Jumpin’s Jay’s Fish Café, The Red Door, Dos Amigos, 106 Kitchen & Bar

Andrea Rose - Human Resource Manager – Walmart Distribution Center

Dawn Fernald - Lead - Marketing, Planning and Service Development – York Hospital

Dawn Barker - VP of Human Resources- RiverWoods at Exeter

Renee Riedel-Plummer – Vice President of Development - Two International Group

Bill Piombino - Director of Operations - Lonza Biologics, Inc.

Henry Scipione – Superintendent of Schools – York School Department