How to Attract Young Workers to the Portable Restroom Industry

Mack Long inherited Piedmont Disposal and Recycling in 2019 at age 22, after his father passed away from ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Thrust into a leadership role by circumstance, he didn’t have a lot of opportunity to think about becoming part of the Winston-Salem, North Carolina-area business. But with the growth of the portable restroom business, now standing at 550 units, he’s become more attuned to the need to attract younger workers to the field. Many of Piedmont’s employees have been with the company for more than 15 years, and building a similar new crop of seasoned employees