Monday’s Afternoon Update

In Florida, COVID uptick is resulting in extra disruptions at residence, work and college

Coronavirus circumstances are as soon as once more on the rise in Florida. However colleges and employers have fewer instruments to gradual the unfold of COVID-19. The rise in circumstances is resulting in extra hospitalizations and extra disruptions at residence, work and college. With many employers nonetheless grappling with employees shortages, even modest will increase in employees calling in sick generally is a burden, with colleges, shops and eating places struggling to cowl shifts. Extra from WUSFand the Tampa Bay Occasions.

‘What they must say issues’: UNF launches new empowerment program for ladies enterprise college students

Final yr 4 native corporations — CSX Corp., Truist Monetary Corp., staffing supplier Adecco and gastroenterology supplier Borland Groover — approached UNF for assist getting extra girls in enterprise management positions, in keeping with Ladies in Enterprise director Leslie Gordon, who teaches advertising and marketing and different associated programs and just lately accomplished a doctorate in training management. “They needed to know, ‘How can we make that occur?’” she mentioned. Extra from the Florida Occasions-Union.

First annual North Miami Seaside Small Enterprise Expo to be held

This occasion — which organizers say is the most important expo for companies throughout the metropolis — provides companies of all sizes the chance to showcase their specialty and goal their clients. It should function greater than 100 of North Miami Seaside’s greatest companies and entice greater than 2,5000 attendees. Plans are for it to be held yearly in Could. Extra from the Miami Herald .

Everybody’s transferring to Tampa Bay and Central Florida, PODS says

New information from Clearwater-based transferring and storage firm PODS suggests individuals are transferring to Central Florida in droves. The corporate just lately analyzed information from almost half 1,000,000 strikes throughout 2021 and early 2022, and decided that the No. 1 vacation spot for PODS clients, when it comes to extra individuals transferring in than out, was the Sarasota space. Tampa Bay got here in at No. 4, Ocala at No. 5 and Orlando at No. 9. Extra from the Tampa Bay Occasions.

Spirt Airways rejects JetBlue buyout bid, citing antitrust issues

South Florida-based low cost provider Spirit Airways introduced Monday it has rejected a $3.3 billion buyout bid by JetBlue Airways, saying its suitor did not sufficiently handle antitrust issues. Spirit mentioned its board of administrators determined to proceed with a earlier supply by Frontier Airways of Denver, a deal it hopes to shut throughout the second half of this yr. Extra from the South Florida Solar-Sentinel.

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