Workforce

With great location, cost effectiveness and with the support and encouragement of both government and community, Cumming and Forsyth County is the ideal community for your business. International corporations such as Scientific Games, Inc., United Parcel Services Worldwide Data Center, Alltel, General Motors, Seimens, Solvay Advanced Polymers, Motovario and L3 Communication Display Systems are only a sample of corporate leaders who have found their home in Forsyth County. In fact Forsyth County now boasts 30 international companies, 15 of which have located their North American corporate headquarters in our community.

Based on the support structure that can be provided from a nucleus of companies, like those global partners listed above, our community has targeted the science and technology sectors as areas of long term growth opportunities.

Fast Facts

• Highly educated, easily trainable workforce ready to meet the needs of growing businesses.
• Our location on GA 400 provides a "technology" corridor for high skill - high wage jobs.
• Residents enjoy a variety of employment options from Entrepreneurial start up companies to Fortune 500 firms.
• Diverse fields of employment from science, technology, healthcare and manufacturing prepare this exceptional local workforce for a wide range of career paths.
• Chamber's Small Business Services Center creating entrepreneur opportunities for growing our own "Fortune 500" companies including the new "Business Accelerator Initiative".

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steelmaking.

Richard Florida,
           Economist and Author

Some of the world's best companies call Cumming and Forsyth County Home. Click on the link below to see a list of our International Companies:

International Companies in Forsyth County