Massachusetts will need to adapt its workforce training, public transit and child care systems to better support workers in a post-COVID-19 economy, a special legislative commission recommended Tuesday in a new report developed over the past year looking at ways the pandemic has changed the economy.
Hybrid work schedules continue to prove popular among employers in Massachusetts, but inconsistent expectations of how much in-person time those entail could make it complicated for policymakers as they navigate the new reality, the head of a regional business group said.
When coupled with the high costs of living, remote work could create a competitive disadvantage for Massachusetts, panelists said at a Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce event Monday.
Now that the country is reopening and some companies are calling their employees back to the office, more than a few pandemic-inspired buyers are having a change of heart.
Homebuyers looking to retire early or work remotely from more bucolic surroundings continued to flood Cape Cod towns and some South Shore this spring, pushing median sale prices to astounding heights. These towns saw the most price growth.
One hoodied executive is making his bet clear to the dealer.
An analysis commissioned by Gov. Charlie Baker suggests that demand for office space in Massachusetts could fall by 10 to 20 percent by 2030 thanks to the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, but significant questions remain.
Last year, companies around the U.S. scrambled to figure out how to shut down their offices and set up their employees for remote work as the COVID-19 virus suddenly bore down on the world.
Now, in a mirror image, they are scrambling to figure out how to bring many of those employees back.
Martha Dean’s career has twice involved her in building operations divisions for de novo banks. Now Eastern Bank’s executive vice president of operations, she’s poised to play a central role in the lender’s merger with Century Bank.
Barely 1 in 10 people reported that their productivity had gone down during lockdown. So why would working from home have made most people more productive, but some less so?
It is Greater Boston’s frontier of urban planning: How do you adapt dated, low-rise shops and office buildings for a brave, new, post-COVID world while creating a greener future with more housing?
Corporate leaders are still grasping for the right balance of remote and in-office working and what it means for their real estate needs, with few companies seeming to be making physical changes to existing offices.
Do you think we’ve downsized the office too much?
A parcel of land in a Pittsfield business park that “looks like the surface of the moon” and has been “undevelopable and in a state of deterioration for over 20 years,” according to the city’s mayor, is receiving a $880,000 state grant to help make it ready for future development.
The Baker administration has been quietly planning for a permanent “hybrid” work model for as much as half of the state workforce, and over the course of 2021 will be redesigning office space and equipping employees with the technology to support the effort.
Baker said people may never want to go back to the office five days a week, virtual conferences may replace in-person gatherings, and employers will need to rethink recruitment and training.
Vaccine or no vaccine, COVID-19 has set the stage for what are likely to be some big, permanent changes to the real estate market
Nearly 80 percent of employees are expected to still be working from home come Labor Day, according to newly released survey results involving 106 companies in Massachusetts and conducted over 11 days this month.
There are perks to working from home permanently, depending on how you look at it.
A new survey from the MassINC Polling Group finds that 39 percent of Massachusetts workers currently employed would like to continue working from home either full-time or for part of the week once the coronavirus pandemic is over.
