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🔒Viewpoint: Why women mentors should pick male mentees

A female mentor may both wield skills differently than men and may be more likely to invest in their mentee’s development.

🔒101: Achieving work-life balance

Through prioritizing, setting realistic expectations, and implementing changes, you can take the first steps to achieving balance.

🔒Battery storage issues ignite conflict

Massachusetts’ ambitious green energy initiatives are making some local officials see red. 

🔒4 Things I know about … Driving consumer goods sales

In 2023, retail sales increased 5.6%. Retail and e-commerce have changed a lot in the last five years, but companies have plenty of opporunities to gain market share
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🔒Selling sustainability: How owners of Worcester second-hand shops are navigating in a fast fashion world

For Worcester business owners, operating a second-hand shop in the era of fast fashion means strategic buying, knowing the consumer base, and educating the customers is all in a day’s work.

🔒The green outdoors: Indoor cannabis cultivation has a big environmental impact, but a few Central Mass. growers are blazing a more sustainable trail

Outdoor growers face a litany of hurdles to bring product to market, but the end result can be an environmentally friendlier option to indoor production.

🔒Cubicles to communities: Converting offices into apartments sounds like a quick fix to the housing crisis, but insiders say it’s not that simple

Converting an office building into an apartments can quickly turn into a logistical and financial boondoggle.

🔒Of primary concern: The crises in the healthcare industry are hitting primary care doctors hard, as policymakers work to bring multiple fixes to fruition

A host of factors are putting a squeeze on primary care practices including rising paperwork demands, pay inequities, burnout, and insurer demands for prior approval. Federal regulators and legislators are pushing an increased role for telemedicine as one possible answer.
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🔒From the Editor: Climate change is coming for us all

For this edition’s Focus on Energy & Sustainability, WBJ’s articles examine alternative ways of doing things, where the health of the planet is a top priority.

🔒A Thousand Words: Saint Vincent’s labor troubles

Saint Vincent Hospital of Worcester continues to be embroiled in contentious litigation and negotiations stemming from accusations from employees claiming unsafe working conditions and unfair treatment.
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