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One month after Gov. Ned Lamont lifted the vast majority of Connecticut’s remaining COVID-19 restrictions, an increasing number of Hartford-area employers are starting to call their workers back to the office.

Despite a handful of critics who expressed less-than-optimistic outlooks about the future of Hartford last year, our four-week survey of the community conveys a different message.

As a large number of executives at Connecticut’s privately-held companies — 80% of which are family-owned, according to UConn’s Family Business Program — reach retirement age, an increasing number are selling (or considering selling) their businesses to private equity firms, experts said.

The Greater Hartford region was active in first-quarter venture capital deals, with companies here booking half of the overall Connecticut investment deals and 27 percent of the total dollars.

Jeff Auker is leading tech giant Infosys through its development in downtown Hartford.

Gov. Ned Lamont wants to use public-private partnerships to help finance Connecticut's vast infrastructure needs, including new train stations.

Everyone knows the “Big Four” accounting firms — Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst & Young and KPMG — dominate when it comes to auditing the books of publicly traded companies on the S&P 500.

Connecticut's steadily aging population threatens to tarnish in the years ahead the quality of one of the state's current “crown jewels” -- its educated and specialized workforce, Kaman CEO Neal Keating said Friday.

Connecticut's insurance industry sees major opportunities and risks with artificial intelligence and other developing technologies.

Employment search giant Indeed will receive a $10 million state loan to hire another 500 workers and invest $66 million in Stamford, state officials said.