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Meetings are certainly looking different in these days of social distancing. Zoom and other online meetings, or conference calls, are popular ways for businesspeople to gather when they can’t actually gather. But there are safeguards and polite practices to keep in mind when hosting an audio or video conference call.

It’s easy to look at everyone in the same industry as you as your enemy, but it’s incredibly short-sighted.

10) Start with a plan. Companies of all shapes and sizes should draft a distinct crisis response plan. Existing disaster recovery plans or business continuity plans might not suffice.

Essential manufacturing includes a wide spectrum of workers, ranging from those who produce medical supplies to those who support the agricultural market, and everything in between.

The Gov. Charlie Baker Administration has leaned on the state’s manufacturers, creating the Manufacturing Emergency Response Team under the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative to coordinate manufacturers’ move toward pandemic-related materials.

College leaders in Central Massachusetts are grappling with an upturned admissions period and wondering what fall enrollment will look like if students decide they don’t want to travel far for school, or even whether a fall semester would be able to take place on campus anyway.

The pandemic has complicated things for Behavioral health providers in their patients in two major ways: anxiety of getting the virus and depression from being stuck often alone indoors has increased risks for patients, while efforts to keep people generally away from one another has made group therapy sessions almost impractical.

Dr. Eric Dickson didn’t pull any punches during our interview on April 3 for WBJ’s podcast. The president and CEO of UMass Memorial Health Care said unless something is done to help fix the Central Massachusetts’ hospital system’s finances, the region’s only level 1 trauma center won’t be around for the next pandemic.

Robb Zargas has spent his entire career helping at-risk children. For the last four years, he has run The CASA Project, which works with volunteers who help children in the foster care system, and more than doubled its reach in Worcester County.