The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will cut nearly 15 percent of its workforce in the next three to four years — the largest layoff at the institution in more than a decade. Last week bank officials informed 160 employees — an entire division — that their jobs would be eliminated because a key customer, … Continue reading
“It’s surprising that we see these unemployment numbers and still aren’t getting enough applicants,” says Shang Skipper Continue reading
When Ziedonis Barbaks arrived in Boston, England, to work at a meat-packing plant nine years ago, the city was a pretty lonely place for someone from Latvia. Almost nobody came from his home country or from just about anywhere else outside of Britain. Today there are not only hundreds of Latvians in Boston but thousands … Continue reading
Canadian company Research in Motion has closed one of the company’s retail locations, a BlackBerry store in Boston, but says a decisions has not yet been made on the other ones. RIM has a few retail locations across Canada and the United States, including a handful of airport kiosks. Citing unnamed sources close to the … Continue reading