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Stress management high on employee wish list: Sodexo
Stress management high on employee wish list: Sodexo
Support for employee mental health remains a top priority with many workers today, according to a new survey conducted by food service provider Sodexo Canada. The survey showed 49 per cent of employees valued mental-health benefits from their employers.
The mental health benefits of going to work
EDITORIAL: There are a lot of advantages to working from home. There’s no commute, no need to dress up. It may be possible to run a load of laundry and thwart porch pirates. But there are also downsides.
The executive career trap nobody talks about
Most executives spend decades accumulating power. Yet the higher they rise, the less control they may have over their own careers. That proposition sounds absurd. After all, senior executives possess authority, influence, resources and compensation levels unimaginable to most employees.
AI enablement officer: the new sheriff in town
The number of AI enablement job postings on Indeed Canada has grown approximately 80-fold since early 2024 while the overall number of job postings has declined, according to data provided to HRD Canada by the job-search company.
Vancouver spent $6M on severance agreements 2025
The City of Vancouver spent $6M on severance payouts last year for departing non-unionized employees. That is more than the combined total of the previous several years, and likely a single-year record but its not surprising.
Ford workers ratify deal for 9% raise over three years
Ford Motor Co. workers in Canada have ratified a three-year collective agreement that brings three-per-cent raises in each year of the contract as well as better job and income security amid questions about the future of the country’s auto sector.
Influencers selling Gen Z on blue-collar work
Sporting a bright pink helmet and matching pink gloves, her blond hair hanging in a braid over her shoulder, Lindsey Hover, posting under the handle @thebluecollarbarbie, expertly manipulates a welding rod as a doom metal song plays in the background.
The apprenticeship system has a completion problem
An analysis commissioned recently by RESCON reveals a startling fact: apprenticeship completion rates have been stuck at roughly 20 per cent of registrations since 2013. Four out of five people who begin the journey never reach the finish line.
Home-care workers stuck due to delays
On a group chat with hundreds of child caregivers and PSWs — foreign nationals hoping to obtain permanent residency status — there is a palpable sense of frustration. In 2025, they applied for permanent residence through an immigration stream for home-care workers.
The cost of micromanagement is often the best employees
One of the more surprising conversations that we have with employers begins once they have decided to dismiss someone. “The employee showed poor judgment,” they say. Perhaps. But before accepting that conclusion, we usually ask an unexpected question.
The AI doomsday scenario nobody talks about
On a frigid Thursday last December, 50 finance and technology experts shuffled into the International Monetary Fund’s Washington, D.C., headquarters with a dire mission: to war-game how artificial intelligence might upend the global economy.
Wagner’s career defining judgment on Bill 21
In March, the Supreme Court held one of the longest hearings ever to weigh Quebec’s Bill 21 and whether to limit politicians’ use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause. Bill 21 prohibits public sector workers in Quebec from wearing religious symbols.
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