May 29, 2023 - Worcester Business Journal

Energy

🔒Q&A: The Great Exchange in Devens finds new use for businesses’ discards

The Devens Eco-Efficiency Center is a nonprofit providing programs to help companies make more efficient choices, such as by creating The Great Exchange, a marketplace for the reuse of materials destined for the trash.

Opinion

🔒A Thousand Words: Mass. GDP growth slowing

Growth of the Massachusetts GDP is slowing, causing anxiety across industries.

News

🔒Editorial: A rocky road toward a green economy

With no magic bullet on the horizon, achieving the Massachusetts clean energy objectives will require a multi-pronged approach, with a blend of carrots and sticks to massively accelerate the rate of change.

Opinion

🔒Viewpoint: The benefits of a four-day workweek

Our U.S. work environment desperately needs a makeover. Although there is no magic pill, one potential solution is a four-day workweek.

Banking & Finance

Movers & Shakers for May 29, 2023

People are on the move at ERA Key Realty, Cunningham Equities, and more Central Massachusetts businesses.

Advice

🔒101: Motivating underperformers

Underperforming employees don’t just cost companies time and money, they demoralize other employees, potentially impacting retention.

Advice

🔒PATCH Act would require medical device manufacturers to ensure cybersecurity

Biotech firms face unique risks in the cybersecurity space.

Advice

🔒10 Things I know about … Massachusetts wage and hour laws

Number 10: A seven-day workweek, for payroll purposes, may start on any day of the week.

Economy

🔒Energy Summit: How to ease the economy off its addiction to fossil fuels

When it comes to reaching the state’s renewable energy goals, cross-sector collaboration is the name of the game, according to speakers and panelists at WBJ’s 2023 Mass Energy Summit.

Banking & Finance

🔒Natick firm building a Devens facility to clean up use of the most abundant element in the universe: hydrogen

Electric Hydrogen is opening a manufacturing facility in Devens to begin building its advanced electrolyzers, which can run off of renewable energy thanks to technological advances the company has made.

Economy

🔒Electric utilities increase efforts to fill key jobs amid wave of generational retirements

Ahead of a major expansion of the electric grid and in the midst of generational retirements, utilities are working to fill positions key to keeping the lights on and hitting the region’s renewable energy goals

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒Level up: Fitchburg State’s game design program puts it near forefront of $57B industry

Fitchburg State's game design program positions students and the school near the forefront of a $57 billion industry.

Diversity & Inclusion

🔒Resuscitated: Family Health Center’s return from the brink

After closing key facilities and operating on mere hours of cash, the Family Health Center of Worcester is in a more stable financial position, in part due to higher insurance reimbursements.

News

🔒From the Editor: A focus on energy & sustainability

With energy at the forefront of Central Mass. business leaders’ minds as prices have spiked in the last two years, WBJ decided to renew its focus on sustainability.

Diversity & Inclusion

Girls Inc. names interim CEO in effort to restore suspended programming

Girls Inc. of Worcester has named an interim CEO in an effort to restore its programming that was suspended when its CEO and COO were placed on administrative leave amid allegations of racial discrimination.

May 29, 2023Edition

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