Retain Your Employees With These In-Demand Benefits

Retain Your Employees With These In-Demand Benefits

The average small business hires fewer than 20 employees, which is far below the employee threshold for most federally-mandated benefits. However, to remain competitive and reduce turnover, small business owners should still offer attractive benefits packages to their employees. Companies can choose from a range of financial and creative perks to show their appreciation for […]

Onboard New Remote Employees

Tips to Seamlessly Onboard New Remote Employees for Your B2B Company

When you’re running a B2B company, your staff is crucial to productivity, customer satisfaction and ultimate business success.  However, a business’ vision and achievement cannot be realized if an employee is improperly or poorly trained.  When it comes to remote employees, there could be potential threats of inadequate performance because there is no luxury of […]

Abacus Data research: Young Canadians’ Lives “Fundamentally Altered” by Pandemic

In September 2020, Abacus Data completed a nationally representative survey with 1,000 Canadian youth aged 15 to 30. Read the full report. The purpose of this research was two-fold: 1. To understand the impacts and perspectives of the pandemic thus far for Canadian youth. 2. To explore their ideas for recovery from the pandemic. Youth […]

The Toll of Emotional Labour at Work during COVID-19

Coffee, Tea or Exhausted Me? By Kate Baggott Feeling more exhausted during the pandemic? It’s probably the extra emotional labour you’ve been doing. What is emotional labour? Over the past several weeks, much has been said and written about the increased load on women as they carry the greater demands of household labour and home […]

Many women are reluctant to talk about the new difficulties of combining work and motherhood during COVID-19. The emerging picture suggests the stress and worry over being able to go to work is not limited to nurses. The experience goes far beyond health care.

UPDATED: The Shecession Pandemic: Covid-19 is worse for women and the economy

Read part 2: Devolving from She-cession to Recession Read part 3: What is happening to business right now?   Adrienne lives in fear of another school closure. The 35 year-old Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) is a single mother of two school-age children. She works in an urban hospital in Southern Ontario. “I’ve been job-sharing throughout the […]

How to write job postings that will attract the B2B talent you need

Would you buy this car? The Jeep Wrangler is a series of compact and mid-size (Wrangler Unlimited and Wrangler 2-door JL) four-wheel drive off-road SUVs, manufactured by Jeep since 1986, and currently in its fourth generation. The Wrangler JL, the most recent generation, was unveiled in late 2017 and is produced at Jeep’s Toledo Complex.The Wrangler is arguably an indirect progression from the World […]

IBM CHRO

IBM’s CHRO demonstrates how to position yourself as the voice of HR transformation

This article originally appeared in our bi-weekly newsletter, the B2B Briefing. Sign up using the fields to the right of this page to get this kind of content before anyone else.  It’s not like IBM has a shortage of experts to talk about technology and its impact on the workforce, so the choice of Diane […]

B2B CHROs

Editor’s Note: The very specific marketing campaigns B2B CHROs need to lead

Sometimes I’m tempted to just apply to jobs that I’m completely unqualified for and explain it by saying, “LinkedIn made me do it.” Based on the fact I write a lot about marketing, advertising and the tools to do it, for example, it’s not uncommon for LinkedIn to recommend roles for me such as “Director […]