Economy

Skylite Roller Skating Center in Worcester said Monday it will close after four decades in business.

Saint-Gobain, a French corporation with a major manufacturing site in Worcester, is among the world's most sustainably managed companies, according to a ranking  weighing environmental considerations, employee, workplace and societal issues, and innovation.

AbbVie has a strong record of having women and minorities in leadership positions and other places throughout the company, with women making up 51% of its executive, senior and mid-level management ranks.

In July 2019, Jim Way and his wife, Marilyn, opened one of the few poké restaurants in Central Massachusetts, offering the unique food bowls typically made up of raw fish and fresh vegetables.

Great Wolf Lodge, a hotel and water park in Fitchburg, told the state in July it was laying off 700 workers, the largest mass layoff to hit Central Massachusetts during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Worcester area and Massachusetts both had improved unemployment rates in August to be optimistic about, amid attempts to bring the economy back on track during the coronavirus pandemic.

The unemployment rate in the Worcester area improved to 10.3% in August, down from 14.9% a month earlier, according to new data Wednesday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

One third of Black and Latino homebuyers moving to Worcester are buying in what a Boston research nonprofit calls unstable neighborhoods.

The Massachusetts unemployment rate in August showed a major improvement over July, falling nearly 5 percentage points to 11.3% in new data released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Chris Geehern, executive vice president for public affairs and communications at the Associated Industries of Massachusetts, details the reasons behind Massachusetts employer pessimism in AIM's Business Confidence Index and predicts how long it will be before businesses in the state are optimistic again.