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Robot-Proof Jobs
It’s a hard time to be employed. With employment, after all, comes the constant threat that today might be the day your job is stolen by a robot. The news fairly thrums with warning knells from on high, gravely advising the employed masses that their jobs are in...
read moreThe Desuetude of Work
Remember the last elevator operator whose company you enjoyed on the trip up to the thirty-eighth floor? No? That’s because he hasn’t had the job for seventy-two years. One day in the not-so-distant future, it could be we’re making the same wistful comments about...
read moreBumping Trump: 15 Reasons Working Canadians Have Got it Made in His Shade
The comments the mad despot south of the 49th made recently about our fair land and its leader cut lots of us to the quick. Dishonest and weak? A security threat? WTF? Canada is, in fact, a splendiferously beautiful place, a land of incalculable opportunity, among the...
read moreThe World’s Quirkiest HR Deets
The working world is nothing if not replete with peculiar rules, requirements and riders. In some cases, it’s employers and politicians making bizarre demands of employees; in others, it’s employees winning some pretty dubious professional rights. A down-filled...
read moreThe Royal Wedding, or How to Get Blighty With It
Cor, unless you’ve been living under a jewel-encrusted rock, you know that the Royal Wedding is this weekend. (Indeed, you probably know much more than you want to, including Tom Markle’s waist circumference and the flavour of the wedding cake [lemon and elderflower,...
read moreCanada’s SMEs Perk Up
The latest roundup of Canada’s superstar SMEs—produced by Mediacorp Canada Inc.—offers definitive proof that you don’t have to score a post with a big-guy employer to cash in on some nifty work perks. From on-site tiki bars to canine coworkers, lots of the companies...
read moreFive Ways to Manage a Gig-Economy Workforce
No question the labour force is in flux. Everything we thought we knew about how and where people work has been swept aside to make room for the gig economy. It’s a population whose ranks have recently exploded to include not just freelancers and carnies, but a whack...
read moreTrivia on Toil
Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci wrote the world’s first-ever resume? How about that garbage collectors and bartenders are more likely to die on the job than cops? Or that the average office worker spends a full 50 minutes a day looking for lost files? There’s...
read moreHow to Spring-Clean Your Job
Something there is about the spring that ignites an impulse to overhaul, pare down, spruce up. Your job’s a sweet place to apply these renewing energies. Here are five ideas to get your spring-cleaning juices flowing at the workplace. Take stock. There’s no time like...
read moreInternational Women’s Day: The Youngest Engagees
“I certainly do not accept the argument that [Canada] should be fifteenth out of twenty-nine OECD in terms of pay gap between men and women.” So declared federal finance minister Bill Morneau on the cusp of International Women’s Day in an address to the Calgary...
read more“This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often.”
So launches the Holstee Manifesto, the much-quoted proclamation of bite-sized advice for getting the most out of your stretch of time on this planet. The power of big, bold, personal mission statements like this for directing the course of a company and shaping its...
read moreSick Note
And so it is. We’ve officially reached the sickest days of winter, the stretch during which so many of our ranks fall victim to the aching, dripping, draining dreadfulness of flu season. It’s also a period of intense moral conflict, during which employee and employer,...
read moreBusiness-Based Blues Busting
Oh, bleh. We are well and truly barking in the dog days of winter now. Here is the season during which our existence is marked by short, dark stretches during which we grow endlessly fatter and less motivated. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is a specific type of...
read moreCourting Disaster: Top 10 Legal Risks for Businesses in 2018
Weed and wandering hands are emerging as two of the top legal risks for Canadian workplaces in the coming 12 months. So says the big-ass Canadian law firm Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, in its annual roundup of the stuff. The massive Toronto-based firm, which specializes...
read morePorn at Work
In one of those perfect end-of-year stories, find an account of a CSIS employee who was reprimanded for summoning himself up some pornography at work. The 2014 incident—among a multitude of others—was part of the 100-plus pages of just-released top-secret...
read moreHow Not to Blow Up at the Holiday Party
In the spirit of the season, and always in the interest of bettering everyone’s traction on the professional playing field, here are five tips on how not to mess up your work life at the big Christmas shindig. You’re welcome. Don’t forget for a moment that the same...
read moreHow to Shake Up a Job That’s Become a Slog
There’s nothing more spirit-crushing than the realization that your job has become a drag. Should you quit? But what if your next job is filled with as much day-to-day dredge? Is there another solution? Maybe. Consider: Mixing up your scene If there’s any way you can...
read moreCan’t Knock the Hustle
The side eye had its day. The side boob, same. Now is the age of the side hustle. It seems all the rage now, this notion of everybody needing to have a little something à la mode to make ends meet. GoDaddy just did a study and found that a full fifty percent of...
read moreThe Benefits of Getting Bendy
Stress in the workplace is a serious issue and the government spends vast sums on the various byproducts of mental health and blah blah blah. Time to stop ruminating on it and start doing something about it. Enter yoga, an ancient means of wellness enhancement that...
read more#Metoo
Sexual harassment is on everyone’s lips these days. That’s courtesy of the roaring torrent of accusations of inappropriate sexual behaviour of which a certain Hollywood bigwig has been in recent receipt. Harvey Weinstein is a fatcat Tinseltown producer who’s been...
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