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Unemployment. Labor force participation rate. Employee retention. Skilled workforce. Continuing from 2021, Idaho’s labor market was described as “tight” all year, as Idaho Department of Labor reported in April that the state’s labor force participation rate fell from pre-pandemic levels to approximately 62%, and that, on average, there were about two open jobs for every unemployed ...

The Association of Financial Professionals has recently reported that 68% of organizations nationwide were targeted by business email compromise. Of that 68%, 58% of those organizations say it was targeted towards their accounts payable department. The FBI has reported that $43 billion in errors and losses were due to business email compromise attacks from 2016 ...

Idaho Business Review took the opportunity to chat with KeyBank’s new state market president, Scott Schlange. He has been in the finance industry since 2001, starting as a teller, at a previous firm, then finding different places within the bank that he could be successful. He is very proud of KeyBank’s recent charitable giving in ...

Shea Homes cut the ribbon for six model homes at Trilogy Valor, a developing 55+ resort community near Kuna. The company has been selling and promoting the company for over a year, said Mark Gray, area president with Shea Homes. “We (have been) able to tell a pretty good story, but there’s nothing like opening ...

Read More Construction News Desert Sage Health Centers (DSHC) broke ground on Nov. 16 for a new 30,000-square-foot health center in Mountain Home that will include medical, dental, behavioral health, administrative services and a dedicated space for DSHC’s “car clinic” model. Officials stated the new facility is intended to help to grow capacity and enhance ...

What does consumerism look like 10-20 years from now? That’s a question many companies are asking, and one in Idaho has provided some answers. Founders of local company goodbuy are operating on the premise that consumers want to shop more efficiently with more intentionality. “Efficient conscious consumption is what we are all about,” described Cara ...

The evening was colorful, cheerful and inspiring as Idaho Business Review’s 2022 Women of the Year honorees were celebrated with family, co-workers, friends and close connections in their communities throughout Idaho. For its 17th year, the event embraced a theme of color, Color Your World. “Each of…

How did an idea conceived at a card table become the nearly billion-dollar operation it is today? Cord Christensen, CEO of Eagle-based PetIQ, shared that story on Sept. 14 at the Boise Metro Chamber’s CEO Speaker Series. Over lunch with a view of Boise State University’s Blue Turf in the Stueckle Sky Center, Christensen shared ...

Employee health, community resources and almost everything in-between came together as panelists discussed what it means to keep Idaho healthy at Idaho Business Review’s Aug. 4 Breakfast Series event. Five health care stakeholders — Mary Biddle-Newberry, Patrick Fithen, Rex Force, Jill Murphy and El…

When it comes to careers in science, technology, mathematics and technology, you must get students in the pipeline early, according to Idaho National Laboratory (INL), which is trying to do just that with its fifth year of cyber summer camps. There are over a million unfilled cybersecurity jobs acro…