Central Massachusetts' Source for Business News Volume 32 • Number 11 $2.00 June 7, 2021
Worcester Business Journal
WBJ
LIST:
TOP MARIJUANA
BUSINESSES
Optimism still reigns
In WBJ's first Mid-Year Economic
Survey, readers remain hopeful for
what lies ahead. | 16
Building squeeze
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Improve significantly
Improve slightly
Remain the same
Decline slightly
Decline significantly
December 2020 May 2021
26%
46%
11%
11%
6%
29%
42%
14%
10%
5%
Much worse
48%
19%
20%
10%
3%
Much better
Better
About the same
Worse
PHOTO/GRANT WELKER
PHOTO/MATTHEW WRIGHT
OUTSIDE
THE BOX
What tools are in
your toolbox? |
20
Lumber & steel shortages are
causing construction costs to spike,
even as the economy reopens.
| 10
As Central Mass. companies ramp up for the
post-COVID recovery, they're struggling to
attract employees
See story by Livia Gershon starting on Page 12
Workers needed
S H O P TA L K
Q&A: Acton
outpatient center
adds booming
service.
26
April Ullrich, human resources manager at
Southbridge manufacturer Dexter-Russell
