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Back in the 1980s, the term “offshoring” became a business buzzword as more and more U.S. companies moved manufacturing to foreign countries, typically to save on labor costs. In recent years, “reshoring” has been added to the lexicon as companies decide to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., for variou...Continue Reading

AD: How has COVID-19 changed the employee experience in manufacturing, and what facets of this should organizations retain going forward? Zenk: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees have been experiencing a drastically different work environment. Thousands of manufacturers across the U.S. and around the world were deemed essential during the pandemic...Continue Reading

Of course, the big factor impacting office and industrial parks going into 2021 is COVID-19. The pandemic has reduced business production and workforce (through illness, social distancing, and remote working), disrupted the supply chain and cash flow, and brought about significant investments in technology. Across the nation, the demand for suburba...Continue Reading

In a year full of turmoil and strife caused by an unexpected pandemic, data centers were quickly recognized for their crucial presence in all lives, for maintaining communication and knowledge during a period of sudden change for humanity. Data center operators and major services held fast throughout the troubled, early day...Continue Reading

The most enduring sounds of the past holiday season may have been those of a van squeaking to a stop at the mailbox, followed by the thud of a box being delivered at the porch. It was an Amazon Christmas. Amazon, which began 2020 as a mere juggernaut, enters 2021 ...Continue Reading

The world as we all knew it changed earlier this year with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Seemingly overnight, everything that we used to think was normal had changed, and things that once were deemed impossible for the workplace became the “new normal.” Now, seven months later, most o...Continue Reading

Solar and wind farms impress with the stupendous scale of their towers, blades and panels, stretching all the way to the horizon to capture every last drop of sun and breeze. Much of the economic opportunity related to them, however, takes place on smaller scale, in the form of service...Continue Reading

Does tech investment follow tech talent or the other way around? It’s actually some of both. The question going forward, says Colin Yasukochi, executive director of the Tech Insights Center at CBRE, is the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic could upset longstanding equations and trends as 2021 unfolds into th...Continue Reading

RED BLUFF — The latest Red Bluff business opened with a ribbon-cutting for Chaney Self Storage. This site marks the second location of the business with the first having opened in Susanville. Owners Pat and Janice Gorham run the operation with help from employees who oversee the day-to-day operations throughout the week. “Th...Continue Reading

Tehama County welcomes two new trolleys to the county. The charming and old-fashioned style Tehama Rural Area Express trolleys can transport 24 riders at a time and accommodate four wheelchairs.  The trolleys will run along the Red Bluff TRAX routes and will also support special events as shuttle vehicles when needed.  “Th...Continue Reading

If you missed these webinars, you can still check out all the great content we covered in these two fantastic sessions. Enjoy practical solutions and words of wisdom and experience from your colleagues in the industry. Digital Strategies to Support Your Area Businesses Your location's businesses of all sizes need as muc...Continue Reading

The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (GO-Biz) this past week announced that in 2020, zero-emission vehicles became the single largest export from the largest economic engine in the Unites States: California. “When it comes to addressing climate change, California has been leading for decades, and clean cars and truck...Continue Reading

More than 75 percent of the companies responding to a recent survey from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) expect the COVID-19 pandemic will have a financial impact on their business, with more than 50 percent anticipating changes to their operations. Prior to the pandemic many manufacturing companies had design and constructio...Continue Reading

In 2020, American venture capitalists invested an unprecedented $156 billion dollars into 12,254 startups, setting records in biotech, pharma and fintech. There were a record 454 initial offerings in the U.S. markets, generating over $167 billion. But pull out a map, and you’ll see a country full of small-scale entrepreneurs wh...Continue Reading

COVID-19 didn’t just upset the established model of corporate site selection in 2020; the global pandemic obliterated it. Site Selection Magazine’s annual survey of site selection consultants, conducted in late November, revealed five ways in which the global outbreak of coronavirus significantly altered how companies choose their business facility locations: Instead o...Continue Reading

Have you ever seen one of those 50-page business plans that go into detail about every conceivable aspect of a still purely theoretical business? You probably have, since those business plans have been the industry standard for decades. Yet, in a world where words like lean and agile are becoming the new norm for startups...Continue Reading

Joensuu, a city of 76,000 in Eastern Finland, is home to the European Forest Institute, appropriately enough. It’s also the home base of Valamis, a leading IT company specializing in the digitalization of learning. That may not be a new discipline, but it will take on greater urgency as remot...Continue Reading

For the last five years, Emsi has been tracking how communities are faring in their efforts to attract and develop talent. Our Talent Attraction Index equally weighs six metrics: migration, growth of jobs and skilled workers, regional competitiveness, job openings, and education attainment to rank each county and create ou...Continue Reading

There is not a day that goes by where we don’t talk about the COVID pandemic. It is on the news, in our social feeds and it has infiltrated both our personal and professional worlds. Many businesses have shifted employees to a work-from-home routine; changing everything about how the business day works...Continue Reading

These 10 reasons why your economic development website isn't attracting remote workers may be why you're experiencing a lack of success. NEARLY 62% of employees already work remotely at least part of the time, and that number continues to grow as social distancing and COVID safety protocol remain intact. It's of prim...Continue Reading

As you know, Round 1 of the California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program closed on Jan. 13. More than 340,000 applications were received and reviewed by Lendistry. All applicants should have been notified by this week that they were either: Selected for Round 1 and asked to enter bank accoun...Continue Reading

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 02, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lendistry, the leading fintech Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and the intermediary of the $500 million California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant Program managed by California’s Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA), announced that the Program’s second grant application period opene...Continue Reading

The pandemic and stay-at-home orders have forced thousands of financially dried up California businesses to shut down, but for Dan Zhao, they became the reason to start a new one. “Before the pandemic, I just had a regular job,” said Zhao, a product manager at a San Francisco-based software company. But whe...Continue Reading

Sprung from the lush forests of Oregon just 15 years ago, a different breed of outsourcer has found small town America to be a vital talent resource. FCR (derived from First Call Response) got its start in the legacy timber town of Roseburg, a community of 21,000 that today is hom...Continue Reading