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New Haven, CT (PRWEB) March 20, 2023 -- Jill Mayer, CEO of Bead Industries, Inc. was recently named to the National Small Business Association (NSBA)
Workplaces have increasingly been open to allowing pets in the office — at least on occasion — as a way to offer employees stress relief and improve mental health. But what about bringing your infant to work? It’s a much rarer perk that is now being offered by Milford-based manufacturer Bead Industries as a way to help working mothers who can get exhausted and stressed from the responsibilities of being a parent and working full time, according to CEO Jill Mayer.
After a half-century of decline in the sector, local, state and federal lawmakers are working to revive Connecticut’s industrial base. But without a next-generation workforce to feed those green shoots, they could dry up.
Lawmakers are making an effort to revive manufacturing after a half-century in decline. But they need a next-generation workforce.
When Jill Mayer graduated from high school in 1999, career options felt more limited than what she sees available to today’s 18-year-olds. There was a “stigma,” Mayer said, “that if you don’t get a college degree you’re not going to be able to make good money and have a long career.”