Innovating Canada
Employee Wellness & Total Rewards 2023
-
s Sponsored
Improving Employee Attraction and Retention with an Employee Value Proposition
Through its Employee Value Proposition and unique partnership with academia, TransLink is building a workplace of the future. Every day, over 8,000 TransLink enterprise employees proudly and diligently come to work to help millions of Metro Vancouverites move through the growing region. They achieve this by providing the public with convenient, reliable, affordable, safe, comfortable,...
-
s Sponsored
Beyond Buzzwords: Diversity and Inclusion Are Key to Economic Success
Inclusive workplaces benefit everyone socially, culturally, and economically. There are many ways companies can attract and retain workers from underrepresented hiring pools. In 2017, the Canada Survey on Disability found that 6.2 million Canadians ages 15 and older had a disability, with 20 per cent being working age , from 25 to 64.1 This staggering...
-
s Sponsored
Are Your Employees Flourishing at Work? Here’s How to Help
When employees are supported and empowered in the workplace, they’re much more likely to flourish — both at work and outside it. Great Place to Work, the world leader in workplace assessment, recently partnered with Johns Hopkins University to conduct a large study of 14,000 people in 37 countries on workplace well-being. Key findings from...
-
s Sponsored
New App Helps People With Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorder Succeed In The Workplace
The Routine Factory app provides structure and predictability to people with intellectual disabilities by offering an easier way to track job tasks. For individuals with intellectual disabilities and autism spectrum disorder, participating in the workforce is a key to self-worth and independence. For employers, it’s good for business. “It’s been shown that when employers hire...
-
How to Prioritize Worker Wellness
Most people spend many of their waking hours at their workplace, where they may face a fast pace of work, high demands and long hours. Over time, these constant pressures can contribute to high levels of stress, negatively affecting both their mental and physical health. With pressure at work and potentially at home, how can...
-
Investing in a Healthy Workforce Will Lead to a Successful Business
Invest in employee well-being, create a purpose-driven workplace, prioritize mental health, and thrive in the future of work. We have had a myriad of challenges across the globe, including some difficult economic conditions in Canada during recent months. This, along with record burnout figures, the great reset, and a purpose-seeking employee market has given leaders...
-
Adapt or Be Left Behind: Insights on Employee Wellness and the Future of Work
Many business leaders today believe that the “great resignation” was a sudden, unpredictable outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the impacts of this mass exodus have certainly been exasperated since 2020, with a recent study indicating that 24% of Canadians are new to their current role, these trends began far before COVID and will continue...
-
Failure Isn’t Fatal: A First-Hand Employee Wellness Journey and Call To Action for Leaders
Businesses must embrace authenticity and transparency, supporting mental health and flexible work. The business ecosystem – from community non-profits to the world’s most recognizable C-suites alike – too often uphold a public-facing employer identity rooted in notions of innate perfection, effortless balance, and faultless leadership. We have all seen it – the organization in the...
-
s Sponsored
How Manulife Is Transforming Employee Health through Proactive Care
Manulife is helping Canadian workers to navigate an often complex and increasingly stretched health care system using a preventative health approach. Manulife Group Benefits isn’t just about paying claims anymore. As an industry leader with approximately five million Canadians covered by its group benefits plans, Manulife is evolving from a traditional claims payer to a...
