Here To Stay
With employee engagement and staff retention continuing to challenge many employers, the stay interview is becoming a permanent part of the HR toolbox There’s no end in sight, really, for […]
Engage and Grow
Saying No To The Four-Day Workweek
Proponents make ambitious claims about its power to fix the way we work. But for some companies, the four-day workweek is not all it’s cracked up to be In many
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The Diversity Lag
Our biggest companies are appointing more women to board roles, but representation of visible minorities remains limited According to a new study, America’s largest firms are beating their counterparts in
Office, Sweet Office
So, what exactly is resimercial design, and why is it having a moment? As a manager, one of the hardest parts about trying to get your employees back into the
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What’s The Mattering?
Is “mattering” the secret to engagement in a new hybrid-working economy, or just a patronizing and wrong-headed buzzword? There has been no shortage of talk recently about how workplace team
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A Hyper-Productive Hellscape?
The notion that AI will free us from drudgery is an attractive narrative, but some fear a different outcome Although the tech industry for years has been claiming that innovation
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About Last Night…
Drunk shopping: bad for your liver, billions for the economy If you’ve ever woken up after a night on the town, checked the ol’ credit card bill and found an
Blurring The Line Between Work And Play
Say hello to the “hush trip”, the latest addition to the growing lexicon at the intersection of job and travel As we have talked about in this newsletter in the
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Everybody’s Working On The Weekend
Be it increased flexibility or productivity paranoia, more of us are working on weekends The near-constant forecasts of a recession, regular headlines about layoffs in the tech sector and the
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Trading Up
Badly needed and well paid, new programs and changing perceptions are helping the skilled trades return to fashion With demand for new tradespeople increasing across Canada ― particularly as the