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August 16, 2021Edition

🔒Q&A: 40 Under Forty alum opens lingerie shop

Stephanie Ramey launched her own entrepreneurial venture this summer, the lingerie retailer The O Shop on Richmond Avenue.

🔒Editorial: Fight the workforce shortage with pay increases, training, promotion and engagement

Much like the hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and construction industries right now, the social service nonprofit sector is facing a staffing shortage. Particularly for human services caregivers, the pay is low, the job is hard, and the coronavirus pandemic compounded an already strained situation.

🔒New data on the return to work

The Great Resignation. The Turnover Tsunami. The Big Quit. Whatever you’re calling it, it should be on your mind.
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🔒How midsize firms can advance ESG

Well-integrated ESG strategies provide real value in helping businesses stay successful in the face of disruption while delivering for the common good of all stakeholders.

🔒101: Training leaders

Development of leaders is crucial to an organization, yet often overlooked or implemented in a haphazard fashion.

🔒10 Things I know about. …Employer vaccine mandates

The Delta variant continues to drive increased COVID case reports, causing concern for employers seeking to re-establish...

🔒Create a nurturing culture

We know change management is an ongoing, critical focus in business. If change is the only constant, then we must accept and be ready for it.
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🔒The tussle over who vocational schools are for

You can ask almost anyone and they’ll tell you it’s true: The skilled trades has a workforce shortage.

🔒Despite improvement, cannabis companies still struggle for full banking access

When Ulyssess Youngblood was initially looking for financing for his Worcester cannabis business Major Bloom, he spoke to several local banks about loans, but was rejected by every one.

🔒Human service nonprofits fighting against worsening workforce shortage

Low wages are just one of several compounding factors leading the human services industry into a staffing shortage crisis.

Saint Vincent to now permanently replace all striking nurses

The Worcester healthcare provider on Sunday announced it would permanently fill the remaining open positions vacated by the 800 union nurses.
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