According to a Gallup poll, the average U.S. worker currently spends 3.8 days per month working from home. This is down from 5.8 during 2020 but higher than the 2.4 average from 2019.Â
Manchac Consulting Group, a Baton Rouge-based professional civil and environmental engineering firm, has merged with Jackson, Mississippi-based Waggoner Engineering.Â
The manufacturing and construction sectors boosted the Baton Rouge area’s GDP by almost $2.2 billion between 2021 and 2022, according to the Baton Rouge Area Chamber’s monthly economic indicator dashboard released today.
Over the past year, LSU has expanded its online education curriculum as it enters a new partnership with a California-based company to train a workforce for the burgeoning cannabis industry.Â
The strikes, reminiscent of those in the 1960s, 1980s, and 2000s, have repercussions far beyond the striking professions, affecting everyone from stagehands to carpenters to hospitality professionals.Â