Economy

Julie Sanders Yi, a longtime employee at Ware-based Country Bank, has been elevated to the executive role of CFO.

Worcester-based Seven Hills Foundation & Affiliates has hired two new executives into its C-suite, helping lead Central Massachusetts’ largest human services nonprofit.

A pricey fight over whether to increase what employers must pay tipped workers is well underway in Massachusetts.

Workers Credit Union has named Ellie Fordyce as the Littleton cooperative’s new chief people officer.

Marco Bernasconi, former president and CEO of North Brookfield Savings Bank, has been appointed to the position of chief operating and innovation officer at Country Bank.

While business confidence in Massachusetts remained in optimistic territory in August, confidence among Central Massachusetts business owners remained pessimistic.

Platinum Fire was founded in 2010 by Robert Pereria, who built his career in fire protection systems. In the wake of the Great Recession, businesses started to reemerge, and construction became revitalized, opening the door for new structures in need of fire protection systems.

Employees at Leominster Credit Union, MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, and Mirick O’Connell in Worcester are making strides in their careers.

More than four decades after opening their Worcester accounting firm S&G LLP in 1980, Carl Goldstein and Terry Shepherd knew it was time for a change.

An extended leave enables people to find their identities and focus on personal health, something they can not do in shorter chunks of time off, according to a lecturer at Harvard Business School.