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The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath is forcing companies to rethink everything about talent retention and recruitment, including the unique needs of women in the workforce. 50% of working women in Wisconsin are thinking about quitting their jobs. That's according...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Georgia-Pacific to shut down the 121-year-old Day Street paper mill in Green Bay
Georgia-Pacific will shut down its 121-year-old Day Street Mill in phases over the next 18 months. The company on Wednesday evening announced it would phase out production at the mill beginning in mid-May, when the company plans to shut down tissue production....
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Milwaukee startup InkGeeks finds success with a tattoo app
“Purveyors of tattoo culture.” This is how Brothers Matthew Lawson and Marques Rainey described their roles as owners of the tattoo-based app InkGeeks. "We are not tattoo artists but we love what we see in the culture and wanted to do something to spread it," said...
WEDC: Supporting Wisconsin’s small businesses
While the U.S. celebrates its varied and successful small businesses during the 50th National Small Business Week, Wisconsin business owners and entrepreneurs will have the chance to learn and network for free during the Lieutenant Governor’s Small Business Academy....
Wisconsin Public Radio: State regulators approve $433M purchase of Paris solar-battery park despite ratepayer objections
The Public Service Commission unanimously approved utilities' $433 million purchase of Wisconsin’s first and largest utility-scale solar project using battery storage in Kenosha County despite objections from consumer advocacy groups. We Energies, Wisconsin Public...
Milwaukee Business Journal: Generac to start $20M expansion of R&D center at headquarters
Generac Power Systems will break ground in the coming months on a $20 million expansion at its headquarters outside Waukesha that will create a research-and-development lab. The project is one example of the fast-growing company’s ongoing commitment to Wisconsin even...
UW-Madison: UW–Madison works to protect Wisconsin poultry from avian flu
It was only a matter of time, Keith Poulsen knew. Poulsen, director of the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, with a team of diagnostic scientists led by Ailam Lim, had been closely tracking the ongoing spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza as migrating...
InsideWis: War in Ukraine speeds thinking on harnessing power of atoms
By Tom Still MADISON, Wis. – Nothing like a brutal war in Ukraine to drive home the realities of the world’s dependence on oil. The devastation and suffering there has also pushed talk of nuclear power back to the forefront … for reasons bad and good. The bad is...
Cap Times: Wisconsin hospitals saw unprecedented vacancy rates in 2021
Wisconsin's health care workforce experienced unprecedented vacancy rates in 2021, according to a new report from the Wisconsin Hospital Association released Wednesday. The report primarily attributes the trend to an aging workforce and a wave of resignations and...
Wisconsin Public Radio: ‘Edging into more flexibility’: Wisconsin workers, employers rethink the future of the office after 2 years of pandemic disruptions
In early 2020, before the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Wisconsin, Margie DeWind from Middleton was already working from home several days per week. She’s been an editor for more than 30 years at a Madison-based nonprofit that does book and magazine...
Madison Startups: BrightStar Invests $100K in Spotz
BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation announced recently that it is investing $100,000 in Spotz, a SaaS platform that helps hosts manage and promote their reservable facilities and spaces. “Nobody seems to have effectively solved this problem (of monetizing space),”...
WisBusiness: UW-Madison engineers create method for improving 3D metal printing
Engineers at UW-Madison have created a new method for improving the quality of 3D-printed metal products. Additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing, can create complex metal structures with greater ease than traditional manufacturing processes, a release...
SHINE Technologies: Two Wisconsin speakers take part in White House fusion summit
Greg Piefer, the founder and chief executive officer of SHINE Technologies, and Stephanie Diem, an assistant professor in the UW-Madison College of Engineering, were among the speakers invited to take part in a March 17 White House summit on the future of nuclear...
Wisconsin Hospital Association: Wisconsin’s Health Care Workforce Reached Tipping Point in 2021
An aging workforce combined with a spike in worker departures associated with nationwide employment disruption dubbed the “Great Resignation” created unprecedented levels of vacancy rates in health care professions in 2021, according to the Wisconsin Hospital...
WEDC: Johnson joins WEDC team to build entrepreneurship in diverse communities
Sharon Johnson’s passion for connecting communities with opportunity will help drive WEDC’s goal of creating a diverse, inclusive and thriving business climate across Wisconsin. “Providing everyone access to entrepreneurship builds entire communities,” says Johnson,...
Madison.com: Tommy Thompson: Stop apologizing, start bragging about UW System
When I left my parents’ farm in Elroy to attend UW-Madison, we were so poor that I carried my belongings in a paper bag instead of a suitcase. I went on to earn a law degree, serve in the Legislature, get elected to four terms as governor, lead the U.S. Department of...
WisBusiness: AI program designed to assist with at-home medical care
RedFox AI co-founder and CEO Nick Myers wants to eliminate the stress and uncertainty associated with self-administered at-home medical care. Myers, a cancer survivor who was diagnosed with leukemia as a child, drew upon his own experiences in developing the RedFox...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Businesses and economic development agencies tackle the worker shortage in the Milwaukee suburbs
The wording may vary, but chances are you've seen similar signs on many businesses in the Milwaukee suburbs as employers seek to hire more workers. And it's been a challenge. "It's a candidate-driven market right now," said JP Garcia, partner and director of sales...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Wisconsin companies started to return manufacturing to the U.S. during pandemic, war in Ukraine reinforces that move
After winning a trade dispute with China, Stoughton Trailers boosted production of equipment that's essential for the movement of manufactured goods across the nation. This year, the company says, it's adding 500 jobs in Wisconsin and Texas to produce the framework,...
BizTimes Milwaukee: Five Wisconsin companies named among World’s Most Ethical Companies
Five Wisconsin companies have been named to the 2022 list of the World’s Most Ethical Companies, by Scottsdale, Arizona-based Ethisphere, which defines and advances standards of ethical business practices. There are 136 companies, from 22 countries and 45 industries,...