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Paychex Inc. has surpassed the 100,000 milestone for the number of 401(k) clients served, now administering plans for 103,595 clients as of April.   

Customers will be able to access their paychecks several days in advance through a new capability, Citizens Paid Early, announced by the bank this week.   

UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute will host its 10th annual Wilmot Warrior Walk on Sunday, Sept. 11 at Genesee Valley Park in Rochester.  

When Elizabeth Thorley moved to the Rochester area in the late 1980s and was looking to start a career as a financial advisor, people told her

In partnership with the Rochester Area Community Foundation and Greater Rochester Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, The Strong is offering free general admission and parking this Saturday in celebration of Juneteenth.   The event is part of a larger, community celebration ...

CEIPAL, an artificial intelligence-powered talent acquisition platform based in Rochester, announced it has closed its Series B funding round, led by Camden Partners.  

Premier Packaging Corp. officially opened a 105,000 square-foot, newly constructed, manufacturing facility in Wiregrass Business Park in Henrietta this week. The $6.2 million project is expected to create up to 37 jobs and retain 52.

M&T Bank and the Rochester Education Foundation are teaming up once again to collect musical instruments for local students during the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival, which runs from June 17 – 25.  

Five local firms have placed on this year’s Best Workplaces in New York list by Fortune magazine.  

Business activity was little changed in New York, according to firms responding to the June Empire State Manufacturing Survey.  After declining last month, manufacturing activity in the state held steady. The general business conditions index climbed ten points to -1.2. ...

Genesee Co-op Federal Credit Union has received a $2 million secondary capital investment from the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Emergency Capital Investment Program. 

Goodwill of the Finger Lakes has partnered with Mobile Pixels Inc. to launch a portable secondary laptop monitor to the federal market.  

Evans Lam has contributed more than $5 million to the University of Rochester over the past two decades and recently said he is not done with his support yet.

Only 15 percent of companies have staff working exclusively on-site, reflecting the growing emphasis on remote and hybrid work, according to the 2022 Paychex Pulse of HR report. 

The Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives and Nashville-based Forefront Books have announced a new joint publishing imprint. The Frederick Douglass Books publishing imprint is an effort to establish a pathway for Black and Brown authors to write and publish a professional ...