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Jan 30, 2024

Left behind?

In June 2022, Booz Allen Hamilton was without a chief diversity officer. The McLean-based Fortune 500 management consulting contractor’s chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, Jon G. Muñoz, stepped down after a year in the role. A year and a half later, Booz Allen hasn’t hired anyone new for the position — but that’s by […]

Jan 11, 2024

Va. Tech receives two $1M endowment commitments

The Public Service Education Institute has endowed two $1 million funds at Virginia Tech to support internships, the university announced Tuesday. The endowments, each created with a $1 million commitment, will support students who have secured internships with federal, state or local government agencies, including the Virginia Cooperative Extension. One endowment will support students in [&hellip[...]

Dec 20, 2023

16 Va. companies receive LGBTQ inclusivity awards

Sixteen Virginia companies received the top score in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index, released in November. Nationally, more than 1,384 companies, including 378 Fortune 500 companies, participated in the organization’s 21st Corporate Equality Index (CEI) survey. Companies that do not participate in the survey but are listed in the CEI are [&hel[...]

Nov 30, 2023

JPMorgan Chase gives $5.3M to DMV career pathways program

JPMorgan Chase has donated $5.3 million to TalentReady, a student career pathways program in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., the bank announced Thursday. The program, which is organized by the Greater Washington Partnership and Education Strategy Group, has a focus on ensuring students get work-based learning experiences, such as capstone projects and internships. TalentReady has [&hellip[...]

Nov 20, 2023

Communities must rally to solve housing issues, Barkin says

Homeownership is becoming increasingly unattainable for too many workers, and communities are going to need to make innovative decisions to create more affordable housing if they want to attract talent, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond President and CEO Tom Barkin said Wednesday during the Virginia Governor’s Housing Conference in Hampton. Barkin said the nation’s housing crunch [&hel[...]

Working a hybrid schedule in her job as a health policy and payment specialist for the American Physical Therapy Association, Rachel Miller logs in remotely Mondays and Wednesdays from her Alexandria apartment. Photo by Will Schermerhorn
Aug 30, 2023

Here to stay

Rachel Miller spent half of her undergraduate studies and then a portion of graduate school learning remotely behind a computer screen. Even the first job she took that aligned with her career goals — completing contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic while she worked toward her master’s degree in public health — was a remote […]

Aug 30, 2023

The Mailroom October 2023

Don’t say ‘Don’t Say Gay?’ I am disappointed in your June 2023 workforce article, “Pride in their work.” In it, you perpetuate misinformation that the left-leaning press has been pushing on Americans. Two specific examples:  Reference to the Florida “Don’t Say Gay” law — This bill does not use the word “gay” in it, and […]

“Great things are happening in Southern Virginia,” says Telly Tucker, president of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research. Photo by Hannah King
Jul 30, 2023

Betting on success

Thousands of new jobs are flowing into Southern Virginia as Caesars Virginia prepares to open its permanent casino resort next year, and industries move into the region or expand. Meanwhile, local economic developers have been pitching the vacant 3,500-acre Southern Virginia Megasite at Berry Hill for megaprojects like electric vehicle assembly and battery manufacturing plants […]

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on CNBC
Jul 11, 2023

Virginia rises to No. 2 in CNBC’s Top States for Business

Rated America’s best state for education, Virginia climbed to the No. 2 spot in CNBC’s 2023 Top States for Business rankings, with North Carolina taking the top spot for the second year in a row. “Virginia is our most decorated state, a five-time winner,” the cable business news network said Tuesday, “but you’ll pay dearly […]

Jun 29, 2023

The cost of leaning in

In 1982, the comic strip “Frank and Ernest” noted that Ginger Rogers — standing in for all women — did everything Fred Astaire did but “backwards and in high heels.” Even 41 years ago, that sentiment felt like a well-known acknowledgement, and it still holds true now. This issue, in our third annual Women in Leadership […]

Jun 27, 2023

TCC expands Skilled Trades Academy

Tidewater Community College has kicked off the expansion of its Skilled Trades Academy, adding more space and more courses to its Portsmouth facility.  The academy opened in 2019 with 20,000 square feet of space, and currently has three classrooms at 3303 Airline Blvd., which is enough room to hold three to six courses at a […]

About 25% to 33% of Dillon Behr’s workload as a cyber and executive liability broker at insurer Risk Placement Services is phishing-related. Compromised emails make up the largest category of attacks. Photo by Stephen Gosling
May 30, 2023

Va. chamber to offer small biz health coverage

Finding affordable health insurance has long been a difficulty for small business owners and employees. Premiums may be affordable one year and could double the next. In 2020, Virginia’s average health insurance cost per person was $8,815, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, and 36.1% of people polled reported that they did not […]

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