Steve Petranik has been an editor and reporter for almost four decades and now is the editor of Hawaii Business. Before joining the magazine in 2009, he spent 18 years as an editor at the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and five years at the Honolulu Advertiser. He’s reported from six countries on three continents and his stories have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. We started working from home on March 16 and most of Hawaiʻi Energy’s employees have adjusted well to our new schedules and surroundings.…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. As a provider of essential communication services, Hawaiian Telcom has been fully operational throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders.…
The U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on June 15 that protects gay and transgender workers from workplace discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. In Hawai‘i, state law already made it unlawful for employers to discriminate…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your physical locations at Wet’n’Wild Hawaii. We did our homework, prepared our plans and kept our irons in the fire so that when we were allowed to re-open we…
Interview with Stacie Kunihisa, Principal, Kanoelani Elementary School How did you lead through the transition and create a routine confronted by this sudden change? The biggest shift we made when this pandemic first hit was changing our mindset as a…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. Progressive Communications is categorized as a critical infrastructure IT business. We support scores of Department of Defense installations throughout the globe as well…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices and other physical locations. While it seems Hawai‘i has gotten past the immediate health crisis for now, it is still important to take precautions as we slowly…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices and other physical locations. When it was first announced that the Hawaii work-from-home order was going to be eased on May 31, we started our return-to-the-office planning.…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. As an insurance carrier, Zephyr Insurance is considered an essential business. While our office remained open for business throughout the stay-at-home order, we…
These are tough times for working people. Please us how your members have been affected? Nationally, SAG-AFTRA represents approximately 160,000 actors, announcers, broadcast journalists, dancers, DJs, news writers, news editors, program hosts, puppeteers, recording artists, singers, stunt performers, voiceover artists…
These are tough times for working people. Please tell us how your members have been affected? We represent Kaiser Hawai‘i’s frontline nurses and respiratory therapists as their exclusive bargaining representative. Our members experienced tremendous stress concerning their personal safety related…
These are tough times for working people. Please tell us how your members have been affected? Throughout this crisis, teachers in Hawai‘i have risen to the challenge to make sure we can still provide an education for our keiki. They’ve…
These are tough times for working people. Please tell us how your members have been affected? COVID-19 brought the tourism industry in Hawai‘i to a halt. Hotel occupancy took a plunge, forcing hotels to shut down. Today, about 80% of…
Interview: Joan Naguwa, Executive Director, HUGS How has your organization been able to continue its core mission(s)? Like most other nonprofit organizations and businesses across the state, we’ve had to be vigilant about rapidly changing information, flexible and creative to…
Interview: Karen Tan, President and CEO, Child & Family Service Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. At CFS, the values of humility, ownership, perseverance and engagement (HOPE) guide our…
Interview: Francoise Culley-Trotman, Interim CEO, AlohaCare As Hawai‘i’s people return to offices and other shared locations, what do you think are the main health precautions we should focus on? It’s important for businesses and individuals to follow all of the…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. Our agency is opening our Honolulu office on July 1. Those who prefer to come into the office to work can do so,…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. The utmost important factor in returning to work was the safety of our employees and providing a CDC-compliant workplace. Upon returning to the…
Interview: Paul Turnbull, President, Mid-Pacific Institute How will the coming school year be different from previous years? The coming school year will be unique due to necessary social distancing and safety guidelines to protect the Mid-Pacific school community throughout the…
Virtual Interview: Bob Davis, Leilehua-Mililani-Waialua Complex Area Superintendent, Hawai‘i Department of Education How did you lead through the transition and create a system that allowed students to continue learning? I am fortunate to work with very dedicated school leaders, teachers…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your stores and other physical locations. Essential businesses at Windward Mall remained open throughout the pandemic to best serve our community in need of healthcare, financial services or takeout…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices and other physical locations. HDS has done well with nearly 100% of our employees working remotely since March. Many of our participating dentists have started to open…
As Hawai‘i’s people return to offices, stores, restaurants and other shared locations, what do you think are the main health precautions we should focus on? First and foremost, act with caring and aloha for others. Health rules are devised to…
What has been your company’s latest pivot or innovation? Our projects cover a wide geographic range, from Waikīkī and the Neighbor Islands to Asia. We were fortunately prepared to work remotely, but we had to fine tune those systems. Internally,…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your office or other physical locations. As Gov. David Ige started to lift Hawai‘i’s stay at home restrictions in mid-May, HMSA’s first wave of employees began returning to work.…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices and other physical locations. Over the past few months, while the state and county emergency work from home orders have been in effect, the Inkinen executive search…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices and other physical locations. As of mid-June we have been able to return to normal operating hours at all of our branches on O‘ahu, Maui and the…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. Employees who can productively telework will continue to do so until at least Aug. 31, possibly longer. Our walk-in payment…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. We have been assisting applicants and companies throughout the pandemic, but completely virtually. We had to remain open to help…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. The financial events spurred by the coronavirus pandemic have put a spotlight on the importance for HawaiiUSA members to be…
These are tough times for working people. Please tell us how your members have been affected? The affiliate unions of the Hawai‘i AFL-CIO represent a broad and diverse universe of jobs in Hawai‘i. Hardest hit in our federation are employees…
Read more about how Mark H. Yamakawa is leading HDS forward. https://vimeo.com/430888549
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. Starting this week, six of our 15 staff will return to the office. They will be seated a minimum of…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, restaurants, warehouses or other physical locations. Although our offices have been closed to the public, they’ve remained open throughout the crisis for a limited number of…
CEO of the Hawai‘i Community Foundation talks about how local charities are supporting the needy and how the charities themselves have been disrupted https://vimeo.com/430583583
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices or other physical locations. We launched Stage 1 of our re-opening on June 8. For Stage 1, we are still encouraging our staff to work from home…
Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your offices, stores, warehouses or other physical locations. When the crisis began locally in March, our teams adapted quickly by implementing revised safety procedures – from temperature checks and…
Aloha United Way CEO John Fink says pandemic made a bad situation much worse https://vimeo.com/430227096
Please describe how and when you are conducting the return to your offices or other physical locations. As essential workers, Integrated Security Technologies (IST) changed the way we did business on the first day of the “stay at home” order.…
HDT is an internet service provider. Please describe how and when you are conducting your return to your office or other physical locations. Our office is open to our employees; however, it is their choice if they want to work…
