Technology or trades may be the key to the Canadian job market in 2022
As the pandemic recedes and Canada enters a recovery phase, it will have to play catch-up in terms of skills performance....
‘Identity labour’ may keep women of colour from returning to the office
The burden of “identity labour” is why working from home has become preferable for some people of colour....
Seriously, what happened to the ‘human’ in human resource?
Legacy HR departments can be siloed, stereotypical and bureaucratic. In the eyes of many employees, they function as “policy police” and are designed to protect the company’s interest while paying...
Your colleagues may have changed more than you think – here’s how to reintroduce yourself
Child care challenges, health and mental health issues, social unrest and more are affecting the way people will show up when they head back into the office....
Yukon First Nations’ first-ever school board sets high hopes for a new kind of learning this year
To close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students, educators are finding new ways to teach children traditional ways of life – and give First Nations control of the hiring...
How ‘pivot’ became the pandemic buzzword, for better or for worse
Like it or not, we now live in the age of pivot, and it will continue to define our lives long after the pandemic....
Who is most desperate to return to the office? Age plays major factor
For many young people, remote work means sitting alone in their bedrooms and staring at faces on Zoom calls before being plunged into hours of alienating solitude....
The four-day work week: It’s possible, but complicated [Subscribers]
As many employees feel burnt out by pandemic-era workloads, the idea of a shorter week is increasing in popularity. But experts say the Canadian economy will suffer unless other big changes come alongside a perpetual long weekend...
Your boss secretly wants to quit [For subscribers]
The crushing pace and volume of white collar work during the pandemic, coupled with the intricacies of working from home, are pushing business leaders to the brink – and half...
Canada’s challenge: Getting the long-term jobless back to work
For the long-term unemployed, the coming months are a critical window to find work and avoid the type of lasting consequences that policy makers fret about....