The hiring spree comes as the company gears up for Prime Day next month, its popular sales event that has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year for Amazon.
As the pandemic subsides, local eateries are hopeful that a new coronavirus relief program, the Restaurant Revitalization Fund, will help them emerge intact.
Now called Resultant, the firm said it plans to boost Indiana employment by 95 workers by the end of the year. It also said it would like to have offices in more than 10 cities and 1,000 employees by 2025.
Shaken by protests and social unrest in cities across the country in 2020, employers in particular ramped up diversity commitments within their organizations.
Daechang, which makes seating components for Kia, Hyundai and Subaru, established its North American headquarters in Indianapolis in 2017. The Franklin facility would be its second local site.
Law enforcement agencies across the country experienced a wave of retirements and departures in the year since George Floyd’s death. Meanwhile, hiring has slowed.
The Indy Eleven on Wednesday announced the team was parting ways with head coach Martin Rennie eight games into his fourth season with the soccer squad. The team said it had “mutually agreed to end his tenure,” effective immediately.
IPS officials this week are gathering feedback from parents at virtual and in-person town halls and through an online form before deciding how to spend almost $136 million from the latest round of federal aid for schools.
The Indiana Gaming Commission voted Thursday not to renew Lucy Luck’s license for a planned casino in Terre Haute after it failed to complete financing for the project.
Gil Peri begins his new job just as the system is about to undertake one of its biggest projects in a decade—relocating its maternity services from Methodist Hospital to new, centralized maternity and newborn health unit at Riley Hospital, as part of a $142 million expansion.
It’s something of a redemption tour for him, although nobody blamed him for how things ended last time. It’s also a break for the man who hired him, Kevin Pritchard, whose last hire survived but one season.
Conexus’ new president and CEO, Fred Cartwright, has held a variety of innovation-focused leadership positions in the manufacturing industry, including at Allison Transmission, General Motors and an automotive research facility affiliated with Clemson University in South Carolina.
Last month, employers added a hefty 850,000 jobs, and hourly pay rose a solid 3.6% compared with a year ago—faster than the pre-pandemic annual pace and evidence that companies are being compelled to pay more to attract and keep workers.
Hoping to set a model for employers nationwide, President Joe Biden will announce Thursday that millions of federal workers must show proof they’ve received a coronavirus vaccine or submit to regular testing and stringent social distancing, masking and travel restrictions.
Yadav runs Indianapolis-based Quest Safety Products, which managed to grow sales 62% last year despite the wrench the pandemic threw into the global economy. Now, the company is investing $5.5 million in a 58,000-square-foot facility in the Park Fletcher area.
The ongoing labor shortage is exacerbating some central Indiana school systems’ annual struggle to hire bus drivers and forcing some districts to make drastic changes.
