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It’s too easy to be seduced by toxic productivity at work and in life

It’s too easy to be seduced by toxic productivity at work and in life

Our culture sends messages glorifying toxic productivity with phrases like ‘hustle culture’, but toxic productivity also has an emotional foundation
Ten HR trends and priorities for 2025

Ten HR trends and priorities for 2025

Workplaces will face new opportunities, challenges in talent, compliance, tech
‘Hybrid work is a complex beast’: New leaders shouldn’t manage hybrid teams, expert says

‘Hybrid work is a complex beast’: New leaders shouldn’t manage hybrid teams, expert says

Hybrid work arrangements mean leaders need an array of tech and social skills to be successful
From dim sum to escape rooms, this is what the office holiday party looks like now

From dim sum to escape rooms, this is what the office holiday party looks like now

Gone are the boozy late nighters, and in their place are themed team-building experiences, scaled-down team dinners at restaurants and cocktail parties.
I’m interviewing for my dream job. What are hiring managers looking for right now?

I’m interviewing for my dream job. What are hiring managers looking for right now?

Also, Canadian companies are underusing newcomer talent, business insights from the bee hive and what you can learn from hockey legend Natalie Spooner
What is at the top of Gen Z's workplace wish list?

What is at the top of Gen Z's workplace wish list?

The youngest members of the Canadian workforce are looking for work-life balance and managers who provide direction.
TRU begins cutting budgets, eyes layoffs in face of dropping international enrolment

TRU begins cutting budgets, eyes layoffs in face of dropping international enrolment

Thompson Rivers University braces for financial storm
Best and worst ways to conduct job interviews

Best and worst ways to conduct job interviews

Companies get more out of a candidate in a lower stress and less anxiety-fuelled interview, experts say
My employer is reducing everyone’s wages. Do I have any recourse?

My employer is reducing everyone’s wages. Do I have any recourse?

While employers are free to unilaterally increase and decrease wages to some extent, the law does impose limits on the amount of decrease that will be deemed acceptable by the courts
No boss, no pension, no problem: freelancers can still retire comfortably

No boss, no pension, no problem: freelancers can still retire comfortably

Statistics Canada states that 13.2 per cent of the country’s working population are self-employed.