While the majority of employees who plan to leave their current roles are doing so for higher pay or better benefits, a significant percentage are also changing jobs to escape from toxic workplaces and managers, said Lindsay Coffin, principal research associate at the Conference Board of Canada, during a recent webinar by the organization. According […]
Foundational or ‘workplace literacy’ skills — including communication, problem solving and digital competency — are becoming essential as employers struggle to find candidates who meet current labour market needs, says Alison Howard, executive director of ABC Life Literacy Canada. “Nearly half of working-age Canadians struggle with low literacy, and that is a major barrier to […]
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is appointing Yvonne Dimitroff as executive vice-president and chief human resources officer, effective Jan. 1, 2026. In the role, she’ll be responsible for leading the bank’s HR functions and fostering workplace culture, according to a press release. Since 2014, Dimitroff has held several HR leadership roles at CIBC across […]
People leaders were 1.7 times more likely to experience high stress than individual contributors in 2025, according to a new report by McLean & Company. It found leadership demands continued to rise as workplace complexity, technological change and shifting employee expectations accelerated faster than organizations could support, with many leaders acting as “organizational catch-alls” who […]
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is supporting inclusion and family building with a new adoption benefit. The benefit, which will be available as of January, provides employees who are adopting children with $10,000 regardless of which benefits plan tier they choose. Anna-Lisa Prencipe, senior director of the company’s people team, says the benefit reflects diversity among […]
An article on Ontario’s proposed changes to preferred pharmacy network agreements was the most-read story on BenefitsCanada.com this past week. Here are the top five human resources, benefits, pension and investment stories of the last week: 1. How Ontario’s proposed changes to preferred pharmacy networks could reshape drug plan costs 2. How predictability in the […]
While eight in 10 (82 per cent) Canadian generation Z employees believe they merit a raise next year, just 53 per cent anticipate they’ll receive one from their employer, according to a new survey by Employment Hero. The survey, which polled more than 800 employees, found while 62 per cent of gen-Zers feel they deserve […]
Only a quarter of global employees felt appreciated at work in 2025, according to a new report from the Achievers Workforce Institute. The survey, which polled roughly 2,500 employees and 1,500 human resources professionals across eight countries, found only 25 per cent of workers saw a long career with their employer and 34 per cent […]
“The saying ‘change or die’ has been around forever, but right now, that’s more true than ever,” said Linda Duxbury, a professor at Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business, during the keynote session at Benefits Canada’s 2025 Healthy Outcomes Conference. “We are in extremely unsettled times. The pandemic shook our foundations of how we do a […]
A recent New York Times feature highlighted the growing tension between workplace expectations and the unequal share of caregiving and domestic labour women continue to manage — a conversation that mirrors what Dr. Vera Kohut, family physician and medical director at Serefin Health, says she sees daily. “Work was built around the life pattern of […]