Worcester

Despite concerns among the manufacturing sector and the pessimistic viewpoint of Central Massachusetts businesses, the state’s economy continued to grow.

New professionals have joined Synergy and UMass Memorial Medical Group.

The situation in Central Massachusetts, where 15.6% of named executive officers are female, largely mirrors the Massachusetts rate of 16.1% determined in a statewide census.

For women workers especially, increased flexibility and remote work options have opened up new possibilities for balancing work and family responsibilities.

Halfway through her tenure as the university’s inaugural DEI fellow, Ilyasah Shabazz is helping Worcester State work to sustain an inclusive and welcoming environment

Venture X, a 15,000-square-foot co-working space in Worcester’s Mercantile Center, has officially opened its doors.

Massachusetts was third in the New England region in union membership in 2023.

Worcester joined a growing list of municipalities no longer collecting community impact fees from cannabis businesses in January 2023, after collecting nearly $5.2 million in those fees from fiscal 2019 to 2023.

Tenet Healthcare Corp., the Texas-based, for-profit healthcare services company that owns Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester, has entered into a definitive agreement to sell four hospitals that the company operates in Southern California.

The end of the 10-month strike involving nurses at Saint Vincent Hospital in Worcester in January 2022 didn’t bring an end to disagreements over working conditions at the hospital, new complaints show.