Education & Workforce

Getting to Tiger Stadium and the areas surrounding it ready for game day is a monumental task, but this year it's been compounded by employment shortages due to Hurricane Ida and COVID-19, WBRZ-TV reports.

The 60 companies on the 2021 Best Places to Work list demonstrate what it means to care about employees, serving as a model for other businesses.

The Pangburn Group Inc. fosters a culture that’s about wanting to make employees stay, rather than simply work.

Hiring or firing employees based on their vaccination status has become more common across the country as vaccines have gained FDA approval, Axios reports. But will the trend reach Baton Rouge?

What does true flexibility at work look like? Most organizations approach it in one...

Executives at six of the 60 Baton Rouge-area companies honored at Tuesday morning’s Best Places to Work Breakfast shared how they keep employees engaged, even when working from home, how they deal with the challenges facing the local business community and how they give back to Baton Rouge.

Louisiana Economic Development has launched a Diversity in Entrepreneurship Initiative to accelerate growth in...

An all-women video game design studio hopes to bring a concept first hatched in a St. Joseph’s Academy classroom to the marketplace. 

Workers across the country are getting dressed up and commuting into the office after months of doing their jobs from home—only to be forced to attend Zoom meetings and send Slack messages from their desk as if they’d never left their living rooms because the delta variant of coronavirus is spreading fast. 

A team of searchers from LSU and the University of Delaware are working to develop chemical manufacturing processes that use CO2 feedstocks and renewable energy sources instead of natural gas or petroleum.