The Workplace

The Working From Home Culture Begins To Fade

The Working From Home Culture Begins To Fade

A gradual reverse migration is under way, from Zoom to the conference room. Wall Street firms have been among the most forceful in summoning workers to their offices and in recent months and even many tech titans such as Apple, Google, Meta, Oracle, IBM and Amplitude,...
The Grey Wave Is Here

The Grey Wave Is Here

The number of people over the age of 65 is growing faster than the rest of the populace and what this group values, how they think, where they decide to spend their money and how the economy will be sustained over the next 10 – 20 years will affect Canadians...
Job Title Inflation

Job Title Inflation

Kim Jong – un the North Korean dictator it’s not normally seen as a trendsetter however, he clearly leads the pack in job title inflation. The BBC reports that the 37 year old has more than 1,214 different titles; titles such as President of North Korea,...
ASSUME YOU ARE BEING MONITORED OR WILL BE IN THE FUTURE

ASSUME YOU ARE BEING MONITORED OR WILL BE IN THE FUTURE

Back on March 13, 2020, the COVID pandemic led to lockdowns forcing employees to work from home and within one week the Global Operations Manager for Teramind, Eli Sutton said that; “there was a 300 – 400 % increase in interest relating to employee monitoring...
BACK TO THE OFFICE LIFE

BACK TO THE OFFICE LIFE

Approximately 64% of Canadian companies surveyed are requiring employees to come back to work in September of 2022 and 19% have changed their back to office plans over the past four months in an attempt to retain staff. “Collaboration and communication between...
WHERE HAS ALL THE TALENT GONE?

WHERE HAS ALL THE TALENT GONE?

In another drastic reminder as to how the labour market has become so distorted, the number of job openings in the USA hit an all time hire of 10.1 million in July and the Canadian job market experienced 1.2 million job openings in that same period of time. As the...