“Massachusetts is making itself a more inviting place for innovators, for investors, for small business owners, for retirees — they can come to our great state, they can plant roots here, they can create jobs here, and they can take advantage of all that we have to offer,” McAnneny said at the Tuesday press conference. “The pandemic has changed the way that people work and live and provided them with greater locational flexibility than ever before. And this change in the loss of workforce that Massachusetts has been experiencing throughout the pandemic makes having a proactive strategy to retain and attract talent critical to our future economic vitality.”