More Texas service companies reported rising wage and benefit costs in October than at any point since January 2023, even as hiring grew only slightly, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas' Texas Service Sector Outlook Survey released Tuesday, Oct. 27.
Fort Bend County commissioners on Thursday, Oct. 22, approved a package of tax incentives for a solar manufacturing plant Tesla is considering building southwest of Houston, but the vote does not commit the company to the site.
Carrier Global Corp. plans to invest more than $600 million over the next three years in a new advanced manufacturing and engineering center in Fort Worth, Texas, and says the project will create 1,500 jobs, the company announced Thursday, Oct. 22.
Amazon has registered plans with Texas regulators for a 1.2 million-square-foot building at its planned robotics manufacturing plant in Southeast Austin, with construction of the first phase scheduled to begin Nov. 16 and finish by July 13, 2027.
Employers in the Houston region filed just three layoff notices with the Texas Workforce Commission in the third quarter of 2026, covering 356 workers. In the same three months of 2025, they filed 19 notices covering 2,750 workers.
