Employment in the industrial and logistics sector Survey

As an occupier and operator within the industrial and logistics (I&L) sector, your business understands first-hand the huge importance of the sector to the UK economy. Unfortunately, however, the UK Government still doesn’t fully understand the value or needs of the I&L sector and many political stakeholders maintain negative perceptions about the type and number of jobs provided.

St Modwen Logistics, working in partnership with Savills and the UK Warehousing Association, is keen to challenge these perceptions, ensuring that the needs and importance of the I&L sector are both understood and adequately supported by Government. That’s where we need your help.

By completing this short survey, you will help us prepare a robust and comprehensive jobs and skills report, that clearly outlines the diverse range and number of job opportunities provided by the sector. This report will help us change perceptions at both a national and local level and help raise the profile of our sector as an important employer and contributor to economic growth. The responses provided will be used to inform a response to an upcoming Government consultation as well as to lobby more proactively for the sector.

Please be assured that any information you provide will remain confidential and will be anonymised so that individual responses cannot be identified.

The survey should be completed for one building only, in England or Wales. To provide details for more buildings, please make separate submissions.

The survey should take you less than ten minutes to complete.

Many thanks

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1.Property address (one survey per property):

Business Name

Unit / Number

Street Name

Business Park

Postcode

Town

2.Size of business unit in sq.ft. :(Required.)

3.What sector does your primary business activity fall under?

Other (please specify)

4.How many people work within your building during standard and peak periods? (include agency staff and those who work from the site, but are not necessarily based on-site, such as drivers)(Required.)

Full-time Standard

Part-time Standard

Full-time Peak

Part-time Peak

5.What percentage of employees in your building carry out the following types of role during a standard period?
Please omit the percent sign (%) from your responses. For example instead of 20% insert 20. Please also note that the total needs to add up to 100.(Required.)

Managers and Senior Officials

Professional Occupations
(high level of knowledge or experience required, with a degree / formal training such as computer systems designers, engineers, accountants)

Associate Professional and Technical
(requiring high-level work-related qualification / experience, such as mechanical engineering technicians, electrical technicians, robot controllers)

Process, Plant and Machine Operatives
(such as HGV drivers, forklift ‘LLOP’ drivers and other machine operators)

Elementary occupations
(involve physical effort such as picking, packing, loading, unloading)

Skilled Trades Occupations
(performing complex physical duties, such as printing, textiles, building maintenance)

Administrative and Secretarial

Sales and Customer Service Occupations
(such as sales assistant, yard costumer/sales expert)

Personal Service Occupations
(i.e. provision of a service to staff such as welfare officers and those who lead training courses)

6.Over the next 5 years do you expect the number of employees on site to: (please tick one)

Increase

Stay the same

Decrease

7.Which of the following, if any, would be future growth drivers for employment in your company? (please tick all that apply)

Re-shoring/near-shoring i.e. bringing company operations back to the UK

Increased consumer demand

The need for quicker deliveries i.e. same day, next day

Increased stockpiling requirements

New lines of business / product development

Other (please specify)

8.What challenges, if any, would prevent you increasing employment within your company? (please tick all that apply)

Other (please specify)

9.Which statement best describes the role of automation in your building’s operations? (Please tick one)
(If any tasks such as manufacturing, moving or sorting of goods are partly or wholly carried out by automated systems, equipment, or machinery)

Automation plays little or no role in our operations

Automation plays a major role in our operations

Without automated processes our business would fail

10.Are you looking to increase automation as part of your operations in the future?

Yes

11.What percentage of your building is given over to dedicated office space? If there is none, kindly use ‘N/A’.
Please omit the percent sign (%) from your response.

12.Which statement best describes the use of office space within your building? (please tick one)

Under used / not critical to wider operations

Office space is reasonably well used / beneficial but not critical to wider operations

Fully utilised / absolutely critical to wider operations

None of the above

13.Do you need more office space to support your operations? (please tick one)

Yes, more onsite office space is needed

No, we have enough onsite office space

No, we have too much office space onsite

Other (please specify)

14.How long have you been in the current premises?

15.Is there anything else you would like to add?