Where Has All My Labor Gone?
Changing demographics are likely to alter corporate location and growth strategies as well as the policy decisions of economic development organizations
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Get Great Workers - Green Your Building
By creating sustainable work environments, companies can position themselves to attract and keep high-caliber talent.
Getting the Building You Paid For
Your new building may have problems that won't become obvious until it's too late to fix them. Clearly defined deliverables and construction oversight can minimize the risk of unpleasant surprises.
Plastics: The Bioresin Revolution
There are many ways that plastics can offer true "green" alternatives in a variety of applications. And the industry is working overtime to keep the products coming.
Aerospace: Soaring to New Heights
Record-breaking sales and a trend toward globalization are lifting the aerospace industry above the unstable economic environment.
Corporate & Consultants Surveys
Finding the Real Cost of Labor
The executives responding to Area Development's 2007 Corporate Survey ranked cost of labor second in importance among the site selection factors, but determining a region's true wage rates is not always at easy task.
Is "Right-to-Work" Relevant When Considering Relocation and Expansion Projects?
Declining levels of unionization may have been responsible for the right-to work factor receiving a middling ranking from the respondents to Area Development's 2007 Corporate Survey.
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Malaysia: a Profit Center for Global Manufacturers
Although Malaysia might have slipped under the radar for some site selectors, it has all the right ingredients to make it a global economic powerhouse in the years to come.
Ontario-Looking Forward
For years, there has been a struggle in the United States between forces that view environmental protection as a costly liability, and those who see environmentalism as a business opportunity. In Ontario, the prevailing view is that green is the way of the future, and the welcome mat has been rolled out for companies ready to profit and create jobs related to environmentalism and other forward-thinking technologies.
The Changing Face of Atlantic Canada
Atlantic Canada - comprised of the provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia - is home to fewer than three million people. Still, this innovative region at the most easterly fringe of North America continues to prove that, when it comes to economic opportunity, size does not matter.
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Editor's Note: Regrouping During the Downturn
Remarkably, the economy is still growing - albeit by an anemic 0.9 percent in the first quarter of 2008, as reported by the Commerce Department in late May. This growth in GDP comes in spite of the nation's housing, credit, and financial woes.
First Person: Michael Manos.General Manager of Data Center Services.Microsoft
Michael Manos, General Manager of Data Center Services at Microsoft, talks about the company's facility requirements and how and why San Antonio was recently chosen for a new data center.
In Focus: Proactive Security Planning Avoids Fire-Fighting
Jeff Smith, CPP, CDT, Security Systems Project Manager at TEECOM Design Group, says that if security execs want to evolve with their management teams, they must learn proactive planning techniques to avoid reactionary behavior - or "fire-fighting."
