March 29, 2021 - Worcester Business Journal

Hospitality

🔒Q&A: Reopening Armsby Abbey

In the first few months after Armsby Abbey shut down temporarily in June, its phone system had 7,100 missed calls.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Throwing out standardized tests

News

🔒Editorial: Spending the state’s rescue money wisely

In Worcester, many businesses have been hurting, particularly small businesses in the hospitality industry and those serving low-income neighborhoods.

Opinion

🔒Worcester de-risked

In venture capital, there is a major focus on de-risking a company to the point where an investor feels comfortable putting money in.

Banking & Finance

🔒Movers & Shakers for March 29, 2021

People are on the move at GFA Federal Credit Union, ERA Key Realty Services, Open Sky Community Services and more.

Advice

🔒101: Flexible schedules

Flexible schedules are becoming more common, a way for employees to better balance home and work, especially with added responsibilities of higher education, long commutes, or multiple jobs.

Advice

🔒21 steps to protect your digital privacy in 2021

Today, devote 60 minutes to review and update settings on your browsers, social media, email, and virtual home assistants. Find out where you may be vulnerable to cyberattacks, malware, phishing scams.

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about… How employers can help workers’ mental health

The first months of the pandemic introduced new and persistent stressors to our lives. Over the past year, this stress burden has started to seem like a normal part of life.

Advice

🔒Inspiration will find you, even late at night

Over the years, I have participated in a lot of speaking engagements where almost always students or attendees can ask questions afterward. There are always a few repeat questions asked of me specifically; Where do I find inspiration for my bakery?

Hospitality

🔒Worcester hotels are beating expectations

The Worcester metro area benefits in part by relying less on tourism or major conventions, two areas crippled during the pandemic. That's helped it exceed national hotel occupancy averages, even as numbers have declined sharply locally.

Hospitality

🔒After a year of challenges, the catering industry sees no where to go but up

Caterers who survived 2020 are expecting a far better 2021, between rescheduled events, a demand for weddings and other family gatherings, and a widely expected return to some sort of post-pandemic normalcy by around the middle of the year.

Arts & Entertainment

🔒Golf’s back: Clubs look to capitalize on increased interest

Golf needed a boost, and the pandemic gave it to a sport that lends itself well to social distancing. Now courses are working to keep the golfers playing all those extra rounds.

Agriculture

🔒Growing community: Sustainably minded young farmers make Central Mass. a national leader

If it seems like farmers markets and CSAs – wherein customers generally pay a farm upfront for produce and/or flower shares to be distributed at regular intervals over the course of the growing season – are increasing in popularity, that’s because they are.

Health Care

Becerra rises from Worcester’s Community Legal Aid to Biden’s Cabinet

Xavier Becerra, whose career started at the Worcester agency Community Legal Aid, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to be President Joe Biden's secretary for health and human services.

March 29, 2021Edition

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