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Be Flexible to Gen Y

As Generation Y enters the workforce, employers should be willing to be more flexible and treat those workers differently. “Gen Y has created a need…

Fifty Best Employers Offer Flexibility: Hewitt

While the labour market in Canada—particularly in the west—may be tighter than it was a year ago, some organizations are managing to achieve high engagement…

Workers’ Mental Health and Stress Affecting Business Results

Despite their profound impact on workplace productivity and business performance, mental health issues and increasing stress levels are not being addressed by Canadian employers, according…

Have You Checked Your Employees Today?

No employee likes a “hovering” boss. You know the kind—arriving at your cubicle every hour to ask, “How’s the project coming along?” But when it…

Benefits Trends: Winning the War for Talent

Bringing together the power of compensation, benefits and what employees value most to build the talent pipeline. With the looming threat of an upcoming labour…

  • By: Iain Morris
  • December 1, 2007 September 13, 2019
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Political Involvement in Work/Life Balance

Ontario’s recently re-elected Liberal government has made good on one of its campaign promises by declaring a new statutory holiday in February, “Family Day.” Its…

  • By: Sarah Beech
  • November 29, 2007 September 13, 2019
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Depression at Work

Depression in the workplace is not going away. Almost 500,000 Canadians aged 25 to 64 who were employed at the time that the 2002 Canadian…

Work-Life Balance Inquiries More Common During Interviews

More job interviewees are taking time during the interview process to ask about work-life balance options than they were five years ago, according to a…

More Firms to Offer Employees Incentives for Healthy Behaviour

With continuing pressure to control healthcare costs, more companies plan to offer financial incentives to reward workers who adopt healthy lifestyles, according to a new…

Feeling Harassed?

Harassment in the workplace not only affects the afflicted employee; it also has harmful effects on the employer when it comes to productivity, absenteeism and…

Employees Warm Up to Wellness Programs

Employees say they might take advantage of health and wellness programs if they reduced health insurance premiums, according to a survey. The Health Confidence Survey…

Work-life Balance in Healthcare Organizations

Workplace values, policies and practices have a significant impact on the quality of work-life balance in healthcare organizations, as well as the quality of services…

Wellness Programs Are Global

Wellness programs in the workplace are most prevalent in the United States with 86% of organizations offering them, but even outside North America, about one…

Organizations need to focus on work/life balance: Report

Employers will need to give workers more ability to arrange their work schedule to take family concerns into account in order to deal with a…

From the Editor

A new magazine for a new era in workplace health. Welcome to the first issue of Working Well, a magazine dedicated to improving workplace health…

  • By: Don Bisch
  • October 1, 2007 September 13, 2019
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Trends

  Office culture can influence drinking Workplace attitudes toward alcohol consumption can influence employees’ drinking habits, according to a recent study published in the journal…

Time for Change

To fully achieve healthy workplaces, healthcare stakeholders must unite and support a common agenda. A convergence of pressures has raised the stakes for creating workplaces…

Queen of Quantification

Karen Seward and her team at Shepell•fgi are helping employers to tackle wellness ‘like a business problem’. Mounting drug and healthcare costs, rising long-term disability…

What’s all the brew-haha?

Thanks to an asthma self-management program, employees at Moosehead Breweries are breathing a little easier. A sudden and significant increase in drug claims might be…

Nurse’s Touch

Inspiring employees at Campbell Canada to get serious about their health is duck soup for Fanny Karolev. Late last year, the cafeteria staff at Campbell…

Healthcare GPS

Employers can help sick and injured employees navigate the healthcare system to make their journey — and recovery — as short and stress-free as possible…

The Creative Communicator

Getting the wellness message out to McMaster University employees is what Wanda McKenna does best. Even a small amount of funding for employee health promotion…

Defusing the Ticking Time Bomb

One employer’s approach to getting employees to take better care of their heart health As more employers realize the link between employee health and business…

Factsheet

  Wellness not a ‘corporate value’ While 88% of Ontario employers offer at least one employee health promotion program, such as smoking cessation, only 6%…

In Conversation: Making Waves

British Columbians are outliving their Cascadian neighbours by an average of two years. The province’s health promotion minister, Gordon Hogg, explains why. British columbia is…