Washington leads in small business vitality in the East The Washington area has the healthiest small-business sector in the East, according to a regional breakdown of the latest On Numbers rankings from Bizjournals.com.
Austin leads the nation in small business vitality, while three other Southern metropolitan areas are runners-up: Oklahoma City, Charleston, S.C., and Charlotte, N.C.
The East doesn’t crack the list until Washington appears in ninth place, followed by New York City in 10th. Six other Eastern metros are in the national top 25.
The factors considered were: five-year population growth, five- and one-year employment growth, concentration of small businesses per 1,000 residents, one-year change in that concentration and one-year growth in the number of small businesses.
Decision Lens lands D.C. Department of Transportation as customer
Arlington-based Decision Lens, which sells decision-making software, has signed the D.C. Department of Transportation as a customer.
Decision Lens said it had been awarded a contract by DDOT to provide software and services to prioritize and allocate resources to various transportation projects across the nation’s capital. The programs will assist DDOT in managing the second-busiest transit system in the nation in a city that has the second-highest walk-to-work rate.
Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
D.C.-area firms make Working Mother Magazine’s list
Three Washington-area companies made Working Mother Magazine’s new Best Companies for Hourly Workers list.
Among the magazine’s list of 12 companies are Capital One Financial Corp., a McLean financial services firm; Bethesda-based Marriott International Inc., a global hospitality company; and Sodexo Inc., a Gaithersburg provider of food and facility management services. Working Mother bases its results on employee surveys and looks for companies that provide family-friendly benefits and that promote health and wellness, education, flexibility and work-life balance.
