Employers across the country are worried that workers are getting less done — and there’s evidence they’re right to be spooked. In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest rate on record going back to […]
by Boston Planning & Development Agency, Research Division. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting business closures caused a sudden unprecedented spike in unemployment in Boston as in much of the country. Boston’s unemployment rate peaked in June 2020 at 16.1 percent, a dramatic increase compared to 2.6 percent unemployment in March 2020. Boston’s unemployment rate fell […]
by Lisa McDuffie | via connectcre.com Boston led the country in office market recovery in October thanks to a high number of tenants in the market and strong leasing activity, according to CBRE’s monthly “Pulse of U.S. Office Demand” report. “The life science industry was once again a strong driver in Boston’s recovery, though we are […]
