No matter which path companies choose, they’ve had to figure out new ways to keep employees connected now that their co-workers might not be in the same room—or even the same state.
The IEDC has agreed to pay $150,000 to San Francisco-based consultant Startup Genome to generate a snapshot report of the state’s entrepreneurial climate. Based on the results of that report, the IEDC will decide whether to contract with the consultant for additional work.
Since topping 900,000 in early January, the applications have fallen steadily toward and now fallen below their prepandemic level of around 220,000 a week.
Americans are in line for their biggest wage increase in more than a decade, according to a report released Wednesday, as companies struggle against a tight labor market and high inflation.
Hiring 100% diverse contractors to build a $15 million medical-device manufacturing facility was considered difficult, if not impossible, by many in the construction industry.
Marc Swatez, 56, succeeds Debra Barton Grant, who left last year to become associate vice president of the national organization, the Jewish Federations of North America, based in New York City.
With the acquisition of British Columbia-based Groundswell Cloud Solutions, GyanSys now has more than 250 employees who work in the firm’s Salesforce practice.
The former owner of the five-store local chain said he made the switch to reward employees, who also will benefit from significant state and federal tax advantages.
A single job doesn’t have to be everything to everyone anymore. Fractional employment lets employees work part time for several different employers—able to flex their interest muscle in one role, their accumulated expertise in another.
Rather than hiring full-time executives, companies are increasingly likely to turn to a fractional executive—someone who serves part time, typically on contract rather than as an employee.
When Target first announced in 2017 it would pay $15 an hour by 2020, it was one of the first major retailers to do so. But during the pandemic, a number of rivals like Best Buy followed suit, with some surpassing Target.
A government official said the IRS does not expect to resolve the backlog until the end of 2022. But it hopes the hiring surge, the largest at the IRS in decades, will galvanize a strong response to the mountain of unprocessed paperwork at the agency.
Not-for-profits of all kinds are getting hurt by inflation, experts say. Price and wage increases are stressing them in multiple ways, making it harder to keep up with their own basic operational expenses while also forcing them to curtail the services they provide.
Restaurants, just like hotels, had to let most of their staffs go early in the pandemic because there was no one for them to serve. But now that business is picking up again, many of those former restaurant and hotel staffers have moved on.
The pharmaceutical giant is turning heads with an experimental medicine it claims can help obese patients shed nearly a quarter of their body weight and manage diabetes.
