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Check Your Heart at the Door Tomorrow

Women constitute half the population, workforce, and community and are responsible for over 80 percent of a family’s medical decision-making. Therefore, women’s well-being plays a pivotal role in shaping the overall health of families and communities, according to the McKinsey Health Institute. The North Augusta Chamber has joined in February’s Go Red for Women Month, the American Heart Association’s national movement to end heart disease and stroke in women. Tomorrow is the Chamber’s Women in Business How to Be Heart Smart luncheon. It will be held at the North Augusta Community

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Mitzi Oxford February 18, 2025 No Comments
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Return to Office (RTO): The Dimon Hope

Late last week, there was an audio leak from JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Jamie Dimon in which he came out strongly against remote work and working from home, defending his decision to have all JPMorgan employees return to the office (RTO) for work beginning in March. He indicated that in remote meetings, people are checking their email, sending texts, etc., instead of paying attention and reading what they are supposed to read. The negative impact, he says in the audio addressing JPMorgan employees in Ohio, is on creativity, efficiency,

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Dr. Rick Franza February 18, 2025 No Comments
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Hanging Out the Help Wanted Sign

One of the largest employers in the C.S.R.A. is looking for engineers across multiple departments onsite. Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) held a job fair at the North Augusta Community Center to connect managers and applicants. “SRNS has done multiple events like this in the past. This is the first one for this fiscal year that we’ve done. But we typically try to do these twice a year to try to attract talent in different categories or different job descriptions that we have or need help in filling,” Carla Wheeler,

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Dana Lynn McIntyre February 18, 2025 No Comments
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Powering up the future for students

The annual Power Up Your Future Career and College Day is set for Feb. 27 from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the Western Carolina Fairgrounds at 561 May Royal Drive in Aiken. This event is specifically for eighth-grade students in Aiken County schools. With the event happening during a regular school day, transportation will be provided to get students from their school to the fairgrounds. “It’s really just an opportunity for our students to start exploring opportunities in different careers and tying that into local college opportunities as well,”

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Dana Lynn McIntyre February 17, 2025 No Comments
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Simon Says: Feedback from ABD Reader on Jobs

Loyal Augusta Business Daily reader, Zach Kelehear asked me an interesting question last week about the monthly change in employment over the last year. Here is the data again: Kelehear asked, “The three months that showed drops in employment are interesting to consider…. The “Why” is at the heart of my curiosity, and are these months typically, historically, low employment months.” So, I dug back into the data that goes back to 1990, and here are the results: All months, except April, have shown increases in employment over the last

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Dr. Simon Medcalfe February 17, 2025 No Comments
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Is AI coming for your job?

In the past couple of years, there has been hardly a week that has gone by that ABD hasn’t reported about AI or cyber technology growth in the CSRA. In four days at the end of January, 1000 employers representing 14 million workers met with economic leaders at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Much of the discussion revolved around the WEF’s Future of Jobs report. The 94-page report highlighted the role of AI in reshaping industries and tasks across all sectors. Postal service clerks, executive secretaries, and payroll clerks

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Mitzi Oxford February 17, 2025 No Comments
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New Store Offers Clothing and Grace

After much prayer, Teresa Cheek left her Human Resources career for a life in retail—with a purpose. Local Threads Aiken is now open in downtown Aiken on Laurens Street. They offer women’s clothing in a variety of sizes and fun colors. “I feel like beautiful clothes have a way of allowing women to feel good in their own skin,” said Cheek. Local Threads Aiken also offers an area for people to come in and write down their prayer needs or take prayers and pray for others. “I wanted to have something

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Neil Gordon February 13, 2025 No Comments
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Bridging Business Gaps with Apprentices

Leadership from an apprenticeship program at Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) explained the significance of the program to business leaders. Coordinators from the DELL Student TechCrew led the North Augusta Chamber of Commerce’s Good Morning North Augusta breakfast. The program focused on the current partnership between SRNS and the Aiken County Public School District. Abigail Bowman, the college partner curriculum and pipeline development lead with the apprenticeship programs, said a program like apprenticeships cannot exist without partners, adding it has created a valuable workforce pipeline for students and the site.

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Dana Lynn McIntyre February 13, 2025 No Comments
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CSRA Businesses Focus on Finding the Future for Students

Just as ABD reported on North Augusta’s presentation for bridging the gap between business needs through apprentice programs, comes an expo sponsored by the Columbia County Chamber Foundation and the Columbia County School District. The goals for both are very aligned with CSRA employment needs. The expo focuses on exposing parents and students to career opportunities for the future. The initiative will align the educational, technical, and trade sectors with the businesses, showing parents and students the pathways to obtain a future quality career. Each company will list the main

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Staff Report February 13, 2025 No Comments
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Businesses Partner with Richmond County Students

The Metro Augusta Chamber of Commerce is calling on businesses to participate in a program to give rising juniors and seniors a glimpse into career possibilities. Applications are being accepted from businesses and students for the Students2Work program. The program is coordinated by the Student Workforce Committee, which is a subcommittee of the Business Education Advisory Council (BEAC). “The council is made up of about 30 business partners within the community that come from varying backgrounds, and they discuss things such as students to work program, the student shadow program

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Dana Lynn McIntyre February 12, 2025 No Comments
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