Our Economic Development Workforce Development Manager Jake Maxwell was able to attend the Salt Lake Chamber’s ‘Workforce Summit’ and shares his thoughts from the event and how Salt Lake City is shifting primary focus to our workforce. Read on and as always, we’d love to hear your feedback.

Under the new leadership of the State of Utah, Spencer Cox, his appointees, and specialized commissions have begun work to tackle some very important topics, the most profound being to remove barriers. Remove barriers to education access, education costs, occupational licensing, and the list goes on. After attending the Salt Lake Chamber Workforce Summit last Thursday, I left encouraged by the following objectives to “remove barriers” for those who have had difficulty with access to opportunities in this state:

Read more here: https://slcecondev.com/2021/08/16/a-new-approach-to-learning-and-hiring-in-utah/