Archive for May 2020

CEO Rick Faulk’s Locus Robotics is seeing tremendous growth, because its robots help fulfillment houses and distributors move goods: "Because we increase efficiency by about 100 percent, a facility can take out about half of the labor — so it actually improves social distancing in that building." Read More

The problem people with diabetes face is primarily a problem of worse outcomes, not a greater chance of contracting the virus. Read More

There’s plenty to love about working from home — and a few things I’ll be glad to leave behind. Read More

The city of Boston licensing board on Thursday temporarily lifted the “alcohol with food only” rule for restaurants with outdoor seating. Read More

Jules Crittenden, the Boston Herald’s managing editor and one of the last longtime journalists at the city’s second-largest daily newspaper, left his role at the company on Thursday. Read More

CVS Health is adding another 12 Covid-19 testing sites to Massachusetts on Friday, as part of its ongoing expansion of testing capabilities throughout the country. Read More

The Boston marketing agency had been consistently signing new clients and adding additional service lines for the last few years, which led to significant revenue growth until the pandemic struck. Read More

Rob Waldron knows exactly how well his employees performed over time, because he did something not many CEOs do: He was present at their job interviews. Read More

David Coppins, CEO of Quincy-based IntelyCare Inc., said that recent investments in the technology behind his nurse staffing software firm — especially in data science and machine learning algorithms — have led to double-digit growth in the past months. Read More