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Woodward: A Rural Success Story
Mutual of Omaha will add 500 workers to its Woodward operations by year's end. "They've just added 29,000 sq. ft. (2,694 sq. m.) and 300 new employees," says Lavern Phillips, president of the Woodward Industrial Foundation. "That makes this the largest claims processing center in a rural area in the country."
Woodward's available work force has made it most logical for Mutual of Omaha to expand its operations there instead of looking elsewhere. "We have a number of underemployed," says Phillips. "That's one thing that rural areas have is underemployed, due to the limited opportunities for employment. So there's lots of opportunities in Woodward for companies. And we have one of the best vo-tech training programs in the country at the High Plains Institute of Technology, which comes at no cost to employees." SS
Interstate 35 provides much of Oklahoma with good access to major markets such as Oklahoma City and Dallas/Fort Worth, as well as other Southwestern cities.
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Success has even found its way to Oklahoma's rural communities. Woodward, a small community located in northwest Oklahoma, has seen major expansion from industry, and those expansions have primarily been based on the area's work-force availability, which has been regularly reported through the state's labor surveys.
