Steve Neuman came to Seattle because of the city’s vibrantarts scene, the urban lifestyle and creative culture-and the jobs he couldn’tfind in San Francisco or Portland. When Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps came to the Seattle Repertory Theatre last fall,Steven Neuman and his wife, Yelena, quickly bought tickets. As new arrivals ina city known for…

https://seattlebusinessmag.com/sites/default/files/Petry%2C-Nita_NewComme…Attorney, Paradigm Counsel Just when it looked like Congress was getting ready to pass a health care reform bill, things changed with the Jan. 19 election of GOP Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts. With that, Senate Democrats lost their 60-vote filibuster-proof majority believed to be necessary to pass health care legislation. Prior to the Massachusetts…

Rising unemployment is leading to growing levels of stress and conflict in the workplace. Employees who might once have passively accepted a poor work performance evaluation are now more likely to challenge that evaluation, fearing it might later be used to justify their firing. Those challenges are a growing concern in employee-employer relations. I call…

As it turns out, CEO pay is tied to company performance. It is all relative, however, and when companies perform poorly, executives are increasingly seeing their compensation reflect that lack of performance. In 2008, the total compensation of the top 50 highest paid public company CEOs in Washington dropped 30 percent to $143.1 million as…