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Boeing Suspends Production Operations in the Puget Sound Region Indefinitely
The move extends an original temporary shutdown of the company's Seattle-area plants due to COVID-19 and sinking aircraft demand
The move extends an original temporary shutdown of the company’s Seattle-area plants due to COVID-19 and sinking aircraft demand
Seattles Childhood Opportunity Landscape Could Use Some Cultivation
Too many children, who represent the citys future workforce, live in neighborhoods where conditions make it hard to thrive, study finds
The Seattle metro area is not exactly excelling in ensuring optimal conditions for shaping the health and development of children overall, a new study finds, and the situation is even more dire in the case of children of color results that should be of interest to area employers looking to develop a future workforce. Seattle…
Seattles Building Boom Confronts a Construction-Labor Drought
Contractors in Washington are coping with a costly worker shortage, recent industry survey shows
As a sign of Seattles economic dynamism, the city is tied with Los Angeles for the most cranes along its skyline. But the boom times also have a soft underbelly as 80% of surveyed contractors in Washington are having a harder time filling hourly labor jobs this year, compared with a year earlier, according to…
Facebook’s Hiring Goals Will Make Its Growing Seattle-Area Workforce Far More Diverse
The tech giant wants to hire far more women, African-Americans and Hispanics
Facebook, which has been on a major hiring spree in the Seattle area over the past year, says it plans to double the number of women in its workforce globally and to also double the number of African American and Hispanic employees in its U.S. workforce over the next five years, according to its global…
Study Assessing the Best U.S. Tech Cities to Work In Puts Seattle at No. 18
Among the top 25 cities in the ranking, Seattle had the highest cost of living
Yet another ranking of cities comparing their tech-worker cultures is out, but this one offers a twist in that its methodology favors markets that offer tech workers great career opportunity absent the high cost of living found in tech-dominate metros like San Francisco, Boston and New York. How did Seattle fare in the assessment, which…