Employee well-being

Source: hcamag.com But Canadian academic warns of long-term risks — along with providing best practices for effective implementation of social comparison Looking to boost employee productivity and engagement? The answer lies in leveraging social comparison, where employees compare their performance to peers, according to new research. This approach can increase output in the same way as a 10-per-cent pay raise. The large-scale experiment found that letting workers choose whom to compare themselves to increase productivity as much as targeted peer assignments, but with much less stress.

Source: benefitscanada.com Three-quarters (74 per cent) of Canadian employees say they have or would turn down a job opportunity because an employer’s culture didn’t feel like the right fit, in line with seven in 10 global respondents who said the same, according to a new survey by Dayforce Inc.