Sept. 30, 2024Edition

Harrington joined Bowditch in 2022 after starting off her legal career in the public sector.

Mass. unemployment rate decreased in August to 4.5%, but the state rate remains higher than the national average of 4.6%.

Despite slow and steady progress toward addressing gender disparities in the professional world, much work remains to be done toward equality in the workplace.

The U.S. and Massachusetts economies are shifting from the post-COVID period of rising prices, a white-hot employment market, and giddy consumers to one of slowing growth and rising unemployment.

Central Massachusetts professionals are being hired and promoted at organizations including bankHometown, Vision Advertising, and Webster Five.

Do-it-yourself leasing is risky business in the commercial space, where leases vary tremendously.

Nearly half of new hires felt undertrained, which impacts productivity and retention. All companies should implement an onboarding program to create a successful work environment.

Janelle Drolet, vice president of operations and sales for Framingham-based cybersecurity consulting firm Towerwall, offers some advice on cybersecurity resilience.

For the 2024 Outstanding Women in Business awards, WBJ received 51 nominations for 41 nominees.

The Outstanding Women in Business awards have long been one of WBJ’s hardest honors to win.

Bell-Peña and the nonprofit she founded are now hard at work again addressing the original core mission: Supporting those exploited by the sex trade.

Kim Golinski made the transition from craft beer to professional sports on Aug. 1, when she officially became the team president of the Worcester Railers.

As a news organization, WBJ can’t dictate the gender of the people making news every day. However, a point of pride during my nine-year tenure as editor has been WBJ’s coverage of all aspects of the Central Massachusetts business community, particularly highlighting the underrepresented and undercovered ones.

DPH has officially closed its investigation into Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester after accepting the hospital’s plan of correction prompted by more than 600 complaints.