Working with Workforce

Benefiting businesses and people with disabilities. 

Workforce is the umbrella name of three Auckland organisations that bring together businesses and people with disabilities.

We were established in 1962 and since then have helped thousands of disadvantaged or disabled people…and countless numbers of business organisations.

Working together with Workforce helps your business as well as those disadvantaged or disabled. Everyone benefits.

Check out the pages on this website and contact us to see what we can do together.

“When businesses like ours work together it’s ‘social responsibility for business in action.’ And everybody benefits.”

Workforce Industries

Doing what machines can’t do:

Outsource production line work – the bigger and more labour-intensive the job, the greater the savings for you. Or ask us about employing our staff on your premises part-time. Whatever the challenge, we can help you find a solution.

Our work comes from almost every kind of industry – from cosmetics, food & beverage, Government, legal and financial, manufacturing and assembly to promotional, recycling, telecommunications, technology…and more.

Basically we do manually what machines can’t do as well as outsourced production line work, print finishing, product assembly, some machinery assisted tasks, and some jobs too difficult to briefly describe!

New high security ultra-hygienic facilities handle food rated, electronic, or other high quality processing activity. Ask what we can do for you.

Legal, Financial & Insurance Services

Packing & despatching retailer credit card packs, assembling legal filing folios, collating shareholder and customer mailings, and more.

Cosmetic & Toiletries

Packing or repacking, labelling or relabelling, collating and/or attaching premium offers to products, and more.

Light Assembly/ Manufacturing

Light assembly of everyday items to the unusual – from down lights, spa pool fittings, pet beds and collars, washing machine hoses and connections, to promotional items and toys. We can attach fittings, bend or straighten items, fill novelty items, shrink-wrap, blister pack, and more. Contract some of your production line to us! 

Direct Marketing

Assembling novelty promotions, collating and despatching mailings, and more.

Food & Beverage Industry

Inserting premiums and novelties into food packs, attaching samples, adding swing tags, packing promotional offers and samples, packing confectionary promotional and export packs. Labelling and packing boutique and limited edition products (such as wines and sauces) gluing ice-cream boxes, installing wine casks bladders.

Telecommunications

Packing cell phone and card promotions, and more.

Print finishing

Collating, mounting, assembling product and paper samples from stock to tiles and laminate finishes, gluing, erecting, assembling displays, merchandisers, pop-up promotions, assembling in-store banners, finishing cartons and novelty packs. And more!  We have machinery that glues cartons and most folders, does straight line gluing, crash lock bottom gluing, CD wallets and more.  We also do hand gluing, shrink wrapping, collating, inserting, folding, packing, stitching, blister packing, bundle wrapping, sonic welding and a lot of other jobs you thought no one did.

Local Government

Assembling and mailing ratepayer promotions, adding reflectors to road signs, and more.

Pharmaceutical

Packing medicines and self-treatment equipment in dispensers and boxes, collating prescription information, assembling veterinary and pet products, and more.

And then some…

Refurbishing products (including airline headsets), filling and emptying liquid containers, plastic lining sick bags, assembling and packing pet beds, shrink wrapping, blister packing, bagging and boxing…and more.

High-level security, hygienic food standard facilities.

Our 960 sq.m warehouse is the only facility of its type in Australasia operated by a social business enterprise. It’s as secure as a bank vault, and provides the hygiene and quality control essential for food rated activity, handling electronic technology and other valuables.  Security features include a mantrap, concrete roof, and bar coded job tracking linked to supervisors and workers. Come and look for yourself.