Skils'kin, a Spokane-based nonprofit that provides employment and financial-management services for adults with disabilities, is looking to re-introduce itself to the business community by improving its marketing and seeking new partnership opportunitie
In November 2016, Washington voters approved Initiative 1433, raising the state's minimum wage over the next four years starting Jan. 1, 2017.
Initiative 1433's other major component requires employers statewide to provide employees paid sick and saf
The hospitality industry is notorious for having high employee turnover. Proper and thorough training of new employees is critical for employee success within any hotel and can play an important role in employee retention.
The initial training that hotel
Health care system looks to address worker shortage, reduce turnover
November 22, 2017
Like a Major League Baseball franchise, the Spokane-based Providence Medical Group within the last year has developed its own farm system of sorts in an effort to meet the increasing need for medical assistants at the organization's regional hospitals a
Structural and industrial engineering firm LSB Consulting Engineers PLLC maintains a relatively low profile for a company that just finished celebrating its 20th year of operations last July.
Randall LaPlante, who co-owns the company along with fellow en
Boise, Idaho-based GLR Engineers PLLC, a young and growing structural engineering firm, has moved its Spokane office into a 2,000-square-foot space in the second floor of the Hutton Building, at 9 S. Washington downtown.
GLR Engineers previously occupied
Industry veteran is in first year of three-year stint
November 9, 2017
David Huotari, a partner at Spokane-based ALSC Architects PS, says an improved economy has helped to unveil a shortage of architects in the U.S.
Like many other professions associated with the real estate and construction sectors, the architectural indus
The Spokane office of Omaha, Neb.-based engineering and architecture company HDR Inc. has grown its staff by a third here this year and plans to hire nearly a dozen more employees next year, says Todd Jensen, Spokane office co-lead and Eastern Washington
ALSC Architects PS and Centennial Properties Inc., both of Spokane, won the top honor in the 2017 Spokane Mayor's Urban Design Awards for an expansion and remodel project at a retail building now anchored by Urban Outfitters downtown.
ALSC also was rec
Tom Dingus, co-owner and managing partner at Spokane Valley-based Dingus, Zarecor & Associates PLLC, says the accounting firm caters to a narrow niche of customers.
That focus has led to substantial business growth for the firm over its 14 years in opera