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From the inception of the ROC2025 partnership with all of our local economic development agencies, talent is Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce’s number one priority.

Fear of missing out (FOMO) is a powerful motivator.

Ask anyone in management or human resources and they will tell you that the hardest part of the job is letting people go, especially when it is through no fault of their own.

It started with toilet paper. Before the COVID pandemic, Americans lived their lives blissfully inattentive to and uninformed about what we now know is essential infrastructure:

Everyone’s talking about the future of work and making predictions about the new or next normal. We all agree it’s different and evolving. We’re letting go of old beliefs and behaviors and experimenting with new ones. But as we do, ...

On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its expected ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overrules long-standing precedent (including Roe v. Wade) and allows individual states to regulate access to abortion services.

Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” implying that people go through their lives wanting more but accepting less. This column will focus on the others: Those not belonging to the “mass.”

When I started my television career as a college intern a grizzled senior reporter offered me valuable advice. He said the worst thing that was going to happen was the word "no."

We devoted our first column of 2021 to an investment trend that had gained, and continues to gain, considerable traction: “Sustainable investing.”

Regardless of the type of policy purchased or the terms under which it pays a death benefit, determining an appropriate amount of life insurance coverage can be challenging.  What follows are a few of the more common approaches to making this decision.

The greater Rochester/Finger Lakes region is currently on a hot streak for outstanding projects, development, and investment.

After two years of social distancing and remote work, employers are learning some very significant things about the “new workplace.”

Jane Possee vividly remembers that evening in December 1975 when her University of Rochester women’s basketball home game against Oswego State was delayed by circumstances that spoke to the inequity and unfairness of the times.

Soaring gas prices. Higher cost of goods. Rising rates for services. Inflation has an impact on every business across every industry, and many business owners are unsure how to mitigate the damage—especially when their customers and employees are also feeling the pressure.

Over the past few years, we’ve all expanded our policies and evolved our cultures to accommodate flexible work arrangements. That’s a good thing.