Source: newswire.ca The 23rd Annual Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month® (CHWM) is a four-week celebration designed to introduce workplace health to organizations and support those that are already promoting healthy workplaces. The theme for October 2023 is: “Celebrate Your Workplace Culture”
Source: benefitscanada.com Canadian employees are feeling a mixture of emotions about the use of generative artificial intelligence, with 27 per cent saying it will have a positive impact on their career and 17 per cent worried it will make their skills obsolete, according to a new survey by Robert Half Inc.
Source: cp24.com While many workplaces have shifted to hybrid setups coming out of the pandemic, employment experts say workers should be cautious about using that added flexibility to work from home when feeling sick. It’s a situation that some observers of remote work trends predict could become more prevalent as companies increasingly make their hybrid arrangements permanent.
Source: www.hcamag.com What constitutes a conflict of interest? Employment lawyer weighs in BBC chairman Richard Sharp recently resigned from his post after a report found he’d “failed to disclose potential perceived conflicts of interest” over supposed dealings with then Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Source: www.ctvnews.ca A recent report published by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found that five million young professionals in Canada are in need of mental health support, advising businesses and organizations to invest more into employee wellbeing. “There’s still a lot of stigma in discussing mental health. Young people especially, are feeling discouraged from presenting the issues that they’re facing right now,” Genevieve Bonin, co-author of the report and managing director and partner at BCG told CTVNews.ca. “Organizations do care greatly about the health and well being of their employees, and I think this is now a very open topic for many organizations. But organizations are very slow to recognize the extent of the crisis, so they don’t necessarily have an overarching strategy.”
Source: www.canadianmanufacturing.com According to the study, there is also a misunderstanding between workers and their managers over what employees value and need in Canadian workplaces. TORONTO — Employers in Canada are struggling to convince their people to work from the office but are overlooking a willingness from employees to return in a four-day working week, according to a study by Unispace.
Source: www.benefitscanada.com Two-fifths (40 per cent) of Canadian employees say they’ve taken time off work in the last five years due to mental-health concerns, according to a new survey by wellness benefits provider Heal-3 and the Future Skills Centre.
Source: www.hcamag.com Workers are spending their own money to make working from home more comfortable Workers seem to be so eager to work from the confines of their own homes that they are actually spending their own money to optimize their experience. More than half (55%) of workers valued a dedicated home office space so much they – at least in part – even purchased a new house because they needed a better home office, reported Office Depot.
Source: www.hcamag.com Employment lawyer weighs in on the human vs robot debate With more and more Canadian employers opting to dabble in ChatGPT and AI, employees are understandably anxious. Data from Robert Half’s recent survey, released this month, found that 37% of organizations are looking at generative AI – with 35% of Canadian companies already using the bots in organizational processes. As AI continues to grow and thrive, the question on both employers and employees’ lips is “Can a worker be fired and replaced by a robot?”
Source: finance.yahoo.com Athabasca University study finds 3 in 4 Canadian employees want to learn new skills just to keep up with their job’s changing needs, including post-pandemic interpersonal re-skilling Athabasca, Alberta, March 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — New research by Athabasca University (AU) has found that more than three-quarters of Canadian employees (77 per cent) want to re-skill just to keep up with their job’s changing needs, with digital skills being a top priority among 70 per cent of respondents. At the same time, however, another priority is competing for attention. Three-quarters of employees (74 per cent) also want to improve their interpersonal, or soft skills, such as communication style, conflict resolution capabilities, relatability, and team-building.
Source: www.hcamag.com What’s the difference between a good leader and a great one? What’s the difference between a good leader and a great one? Well, it all boils down to decisiveness mingled with compassion – that’s according to HRD’s recent research into global management trends. As part of our recent Global 100, a list of the best HR leaders across the world, we looked into what makes a standout HR practitioner – with leaders being praised for how they handled culture post-pandemic.
Source: canadianbusiness.com The pandemic opened up opportunities for workers to earn higher salaries and secure better benefits—all from the comfort of home. Here’s how five employees landed remote gigs, in their own words.
Source: www.hcamag.com Survey finds employers lacking when it comes to strategy, vision, DEI and culture Nearly three-quarters (74%) of organizations feel that internal communication is important for culture and belonging, but few are delivering the necessary messages to do this, according to a recent report from Gallagher.
Source: www.ctvnews.ca Canada is suffering from a severe skills shortage in several key sectors, experts say, thanks to factors that include deficiencies in our education system as well as changing demographics.
Source: www.itworldcanada.com The job market has been facing the changing demands of a new workforce and a new economic environment, but it remains robust. More than half of Canadian companies are planning to hire early this year, a new study by recruitment agency Robert Half found.
Source: www.womenofinfluence.ca The world continues to change, but the need for mentorship remains. In 2021 and 2022, there were many stories about “The Great Resignation” across North America. In Canada, this manifested itself as more of a “Great Reflection,” with employees thinking about what type of work was more suitable to them. Job rates remained relatively within normal fluctuations post-pandemic when compared with pre-pandemic. “It’s not so much a ‘Great Resignation,’ but a ‘Great Rethink’ or ‘Great Reconsideration’ of the type of work that people want to do,” David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data says.
Source: www.hcamag.com HP partners with Debrett’s to offer 10 tips on maintaining professional standards while working from home We’ve heard plenty of stories about employees not being on their best behaviours during hybrid meetings — from wearing pyjamas, walking around the room, interrupting others on Zoom calls or doing other work while the meeting is ongoing.
Source: www.hcamag.com Employees most unhappy with ‘belonging,’ finds survey There is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to employers’ diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging programs, according to workers. While 89% of employers have programs in place to support DEI&B, 62% of employees feel their company is not doing what it needs to do to be truly committed to creating a workplace that supports it, WebMD Health Services reported.
Source: www.hcamag.com What role does employee experience play in an ‘award-winning culture’? With culture being a main driver of retention in today’s candidate-led market, employers that invest more in their values have a better chance at lowering turnover and boosting morale.
