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Amazon’s belt-tightening affects towns across the country

Posted By: The Detroit News on March 7, 2023.  For more information, please click here to read the source article.   Last year, Amazon planned to open a new warehouse in Florida’s state capital, creating 1,000 jobs. The company bought up so much concrete and acquired so many sprinter vans in anticipation of the project that local business […]

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‘Positive trajectory’: Office return builds hope for downtown Detroit businesses

Posted By: The Detroit News on January 24, 2023.  For more information, please click here to read the source article. With businesses starting to encourage or require in-office work, downtown is expected to be its busiest this year since the pandemic sent office workers home in March 2020. Next week, thousands of General Motors Co. employees will descend […]

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West Michigan Construction Institute facility slated to open in 2022, aid in construction labor shortage

A hub for talent recruitment, skills development and job placement is expected to open early next year in Grand Rapids in hopes of filling the workforce pipeline for West Michigan construction jobs. The West Michigan Construction Institute (WMCI) will be located at 801 Century Ave. SW, west of US-131 in Grand Rapids at Owen-Ames-Kimball Co.’s former equipment yard. […]

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Office space changes in limbo as workers return

Office space changes in limbo as workers return

Synergy. Innovation. Creativity. Interaction. Those buzzwords may be all too familiar to many office workers who recall their office walls disappearing over the last two decades when corporate office planners preached that the best way to utilize the skills of a workforce was to open up the office to create more cross-contact among employees. But […]

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Michigan Moves Up 19 Spots in Chief Executive Magazine’s Best and Worst States for Business List

Michigan Moves Up 19 Spots in Chief Executive Magazine’s Best and Worst States for Business List

Michigan is now No. 13 in Chief Executive magazine’s 16th annual Best and Worst States for Business survey, released this week. The state jumped 19 spots, one of the biggest single-year moves in the ranking’s history. According to Chief Executive, CEOs who selected Michigan as the best state for doing business cited the workforce, regulatory environment, overall favorable business […]

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