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Employee performance metrics are values tracking how a team member is performing for a company. Data points can vary, of course, depending on the industry and position. And some metrics are easier to quantify than others, especially when it comes to soft skills like active listening. Here are points of consideration when it comes to capturing employee contributions.

While tax reform at the end of 2017, often referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, introduced many new changes for businesses, the research-and-development tax credit provides a way to reduce tax liabilities, often saving companies hundreds of thousands.

There are two pandemics ravaging our nation, COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic of racism. Both have devastated the lives of people of color and affected local economies.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced Central Massachusetts business to take on new roles in preventing further spread of the disease, including enforcing mask-wearing in public and – at times – turning away would-be revenue-generating customers who don’t abide by the mandate.

In a normal season, the Worcester Bravehearts gear the team toward baseball fans, who’ve made the Bravehearts a perennial top draw nationally among collegiate summer teams.

Central Massachusetts businesses, against the backdrop of the growing Black Lives Matter movement, are placing renewed focus on diversity & inclusion in their organizations.

The licensing option is a track intended to make it easier for small businesses with less capital to start making sales and earn back their startup costs, but so far licensing has been plagued with the same types of challenges and delay-induced financing issues as much larger license endeavors.

If we are going to get to a full-throated reopening, we first must get the pandemic under control.

When officials from the City of Worcester and the Pawtucket Red Sox gleefully announced in August 2018 the minor league baseball team would move to the Canal District, the planned inaugural season of 2021 seemed like a long way off. Now, it is just around the corner.