Workplace
Year in Review: Were No. 1 (and 2, and 3, etc.)
1. SEATTLE. Best Cities for Tech Jobs (Forbes) 2. SEATTLE. Top Ten Cities for Women Entrepreneurs (NerdWallet) 3. SEATTLE/BELLEVUE/EVERETT. Best Large Metro Areas for Manufacturing (New Geography) 4. SEATTLE. Best Cities to Work in for a Small Business (Card Hub) 5. SEATTLE. Best Cities for Good Jobs (Forbes) 6. WASHINGTON. Best State Business Tax Climates…
Year in Review: High Fliers
Zillow Inc., Seattle: 180.8% ($28.30 $79.48) Data I/O Corp., Redmond: 90.9% ($1.65 $3.15) Nautilus Inc., Vancouver: 89% ($3.73 $7.05) Marchex Inc., Seattle: 87.8% ($4.27 $8.02) Barrett Business Services Inc., Vancouver: 79.6% ($38.89 $69.86) Seattle Genetics Inc., Bothell: 64% ($24.14 $39.60) Riverview Bancorp Inc., Vancouver: 58.4% ($1.66 $2.63) The Boeing Co., Chicago: 53.7% ($77.07 $118.50) Concur…
Year in Review: You say it’s your birthday
60 Deluxe Years at DICKs Drive-In For a guilty pleasure, its hard to beat a Deluxe, a shake and an order of fries at Dicks Drive-In. Such fare wont improve your BMI (unless BMI stands for Burger Munching Index). But sometimes you just have to feed the craving. Dick Spady and two partners who are…
Year in Review: A look back at 2013
THE WAY IT WAS: For Some a Year to Remember, for Some a Year to Forget. Law: How do you say Early Bird Special in French? Former real estate mogul Michael Mastro and his wife, on the lam from creditors and United States criminal charges, celebrated a French courts refusal to extradite the pair by…
Real wages have plunged even as corporate profits have climbed to where they now represent the highest percentage of GDP in the nation’s history.
Seattle-based PayScale has released data that confirms what many of us have long suspected: Real wages–compensation adjusted for inflation–have been going down for years. And while Seattle is doing better than the rest of the country, even here real wages have fallen 3.3 percent in the last six years. These wage declines are coming at…
SeaTacs minimum-wage initiative has activists cheering, businesses fearing.
By now, voters in the city of SeaTac may be getting an idea of what its like to live in Ohio during presidential primary season: fliers in the mailbox, phones ringing incessantly, canvassers knocking on doors. And if theyre not registered voters, no worries: Someone will bring the form to their homes. As this story…
Recharge Your Leadership Mojo: Eight Ways to Reignite Your Passion So You Can Reignite Your Company
Attorney, Paradigm Counsel You know your people are struggling andnot coincidentallyso is your company. And if youre trying to harass them into productivity, youre fighting a losing battle. If theyre to compete in the global economy, youll have to light a fire under thembut first, says Mohan Nair, you must light one under yourself. Hoboken,…
Employers eligible for special incentive to avoid layoffs
In 1983, Washington created the Shared-Work Program which allowed employers to reduce their workers hours for a temporary amount of time and still allow employees to claim partial unemployment benefits. This allowed the employees to have the same amount of income as full-time work while working part-time, while employers were allowed to keep their workers…
Are unions pushing too far in demanding a $15 minimum wage at SeaTac?
Things are expensive in San Francisco, the fourth priciest city in the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported in March. Thats no secret, or even mildly surprising, but this is: Proponents of a $15 an hour minimum wage for workers in and around the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are using the San Francisco International Airport…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2013: Companies HQ Outside Washington
RANK: First Place (tie) COMPANY: DoubleDown Interactive, Seattle HOME OFFICE: Las Vegas, Nevada Rolling on a Hot Streak If you’ve ever played poker on Facebook, you’ve probably used DoubleDown Interactive’s flagship product, the DoubleDown Casino. Though no actual currency is won or lost in this virtual betting house—it’s a “non-gaming” environment in which users can purchase…
THE 100 BEST COMPANIES TO WORK FOR 2013
SMALL FIRMS (fewer than 30 employees) 1. Atlas Coffee Importers, Seattle, Importer and warehouser of high-quality green coffee 2. Artitudes Design, Issaquah, Graphic design firm specializing in executive presentations, branding, marketing and 14 motion design. 3. Addioz Corporation, Bellevue, Technical recruitment firm specializing in executive search and corporate training 4. Provisional Recruiting & Staffing, Spokane,…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2013: Nonprofit Companies
RANK: First Place, Large Nonprofits COMPANY: Career Path Services, Spokane Inspiring Others to Hear the Call Career Path Services has been linking employers and job seekers for more than 40 years. In that time, the agency has grown from a single office of 15 employees to more than 90 employees spread across the state of…
100 Best Companies to Work For 2013: Large Companies
RANK: First Place COMPANY: Slalom Consulting, Seattle Building a Sense of CommunityWhen it comes to projects, theres almost nothing that Slalom Consulting cant handle. The firms 525 Washington-based employees can schuss and carve among sectors as wide-ranging as advanced infrastructure, health care and SAP. That agility makes Slalom an invaluable resource for dozens of local…