TeamKC: Life+Talent partnered with Alissa Wehmueller, workplace design expert with Helix Architecture + Design to explore the impact the workplace environment has on attracting and retaining talent. Alissa shared research on the benefits of investing in the work environment, as well as best practices for how a company can achieve the greatest impact from their space.

TeamKC partner, Stacy Pursell, managing partner of The VET Recruiter, a division of the Pursell Group, offers insight on ways to think about employer branding throughout your hiring process.

Kansas City is one of just two cities in the U.S. where Mozilla will fund gigabit-enabled projects focused on education and workforce development.

KCnext advocates for tech-related policies on a federal level through a partnership with CompTIA Advocacy. Read CompTIA's recap of 2015 legislative activity, and see what's ahead in 2016.

Knowing intern season in Kansas City is quickly approaching and soon-to-be grads will start applying for full-time jobs, we asked our friends at Kansas Athletics to offer insight on why student-athletes make great employees.

KCnext joined IBM and more than 350 other companies and organizations to urge Congress to reauthorize legislation related to Career and Technical Education (CTE).

S&S Activewear, a national promotional apparel wholesaler, announced it will locate a new distribution center in Olathe, Kansas, creating 200 jobs in the region. S&S Activewear will occupy a 473,000-sq.-ft. shipping and receiving facility at I-35 Logistics Park.

Through its business attraction partnership with the Kansas City Area Development Council and regional economic development organizations, Kansas City SmartPort successfully attracted 12 freight-based projects to the Kansas City area in 2015.

Focus Workforces is Kansas City’s leading provider of light industrial staffing and workforce management solutions.

Logistics is defined as the things that must be done to plan and organize a complicated activity or event that involves many people, while supply chain is defined as the sequence of processes involved in the production and distribution of a commodity.