CVS plans to hire 50K, add benefits for employees during COVID-19...
WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. plans to hire 50,000 full-time, part-time and temporary employees in the United States in response to the COVID-19 pandemic,...
IT companies scramble to get virtual workplaces installed for clients
As companies across the state transition to remote work, information-technology service firms have been getting slammed with requests to set up the software, security...
Special mindset needed to work from home
Work-from-home mandates abound right now for office-based professionals in light of worldwide attempts to minimize germs and the impact of the coronavirus. Even in...
Newport Restaurant Group appears to have recipe for success
Newport Restaurant Group CEO Paul O’Reilly cites the dynamic of employee ownership as playing a big part in his company’s success in cultivating creative...
Jason Albuquerque: Check off these items during virus uncertainty
As businesses around the world prepare for continued uncertainty with the coronavirus, it is critical to have a business-preparedness checklist that spans all aspects...
Weil: Fewer OSHA inspectors is a dangerous matter
In many industries, such as construction, transportation, warehousing and health care, the workplace is dangerous. In 2018 alone, 5,250 workers died on the job.
In...
In banking industry, tasty perks part of recruitment
Amid record-low unemployment levels, competition posed by Boston and New York, and a rapidly aging workforce, Rhode Island financial institutions are searching for the...
R.I. lacks key data on minority businesses
People of color are underrepresented as business owners compared with their share of Rhode Island’s population, but getting a clear picture on the depth...
Diversity can be challenging for R.I. law firms
Bre’Anna Metts-Nixon, president of the Black Law Students Association at Roger Williams University School of Law, will graduate this year. She wants to practice...
STEM-ing the flow: Is R.I.’s Wavemaker program reducing ‘brain drain’?
Architectural designer Kaitlin DeGregorio was weighing a job offer in New York 2½ years ago when she instead made a commitment to a construction...
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