Forget the standard eight-hour workday. An employer in Victoria lets employees work in the office for only five hours a day. Employees at digital marketing agency RingPartner Inc. must be in the office from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., but they’re free to decide where, when and how they’ll work the rest of the workday. While […]
Nearly a third (29 per cent) of employees would take a pay cut to work flexibly, while 22 per cent would take reduced vacation time and 19 per cent would give up employer-matched retirement contributions, according to a new survey by online service FlexJobs. The survey, which polled more than 5,500 employees, also found 79 […]
Facing a number of challenges not experienced by their larger counterparts, medium-sized employers must leverage their strengths when it comes to employee recruitment, according to a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit. The report examines the hiring challenges faced by medium-sized companies in Australia, Britain, Canada, France and the United States. In Canada, medium-sized […]
More than half (51 per cent) of business people expect the demand for flexibility to continue growing over the next year, according to research by Regus Canada. Nearly a quarter (22 per cent) of respondents said they’ve noticed an increase in part-time employees in the past year, while 16 per cent said they’ve seen an […]
While getting up to three months off after working somewhere for 10 years sounds like a great deal, the idea seems unlikely to become a common feature in Canadian workplaces, as it is in Australia. As Benefits Canada’s Sara Tatelman reports in this month’s issue, Australia’s generous system of additional paid time off for long-term […]
Non-traditional workers are becoming more standard in the Canadian workplace, according to a new study by Randstad Canada. The recruitment firm found contractual, remote, consultant or freelance workers currently make up 20 to 30 per cent of the workforce, and expects this number will increase in the next decade. Read: The intricacies of providing benefits in […]
Nearly half (47 per cent) of Canadian employees work from outside one of their employer’s main offices for half the week or more, according to new research by Regus Canada. Some 39 per cent of respondents said they mostly work from home and 11 per cent said they work exclusively from home. Also, 54 per […]
Have no fear, small businesses — you won’t go bankrupt if you try to compete with Google’s employee benefits offering. Besides health-care coverage, the most popular benefits aren’t too expensive, according to a new survey by marketing agency Fractl. More than half (54 per cent) of the 2,000 American employees who responded to the survey said they’d […]
The federal government’s advisory council on economic growth has released its second wave of recommendations that include extending the age of eligibility for the Canada Pension Plan, establishing a reasonable process for requesting flexible working arrangements and creating a universal subsidized childcare program to get more women into the workforce. The advisory council believes allowing CPP and […]
Nearly half of Canadian employees report feeling overworked and burnt out. But the overwhelming majority are still happy at work, according to the Staples Advantage Workplace Index.