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Human Resources

Choice key to unlocking wider flex-work benefits

Researchers say offering employees choice in work location may be key to unlocking the wider-ranging benefits of flex work.

Introducing change in the workplace

Successfully introducing change in the workplace is about more than co-ordinating logistics. Programs need to educate and engage employees.

How to start networking like a pro

Networking means more than collecting piles of business cards; it is all about building strategic relationships.

Becoming a chief facilities officer

The new 'CFO' position can play an integral role in identifying how an organization’s physical assets and environment can support its goals.

Keeping technology in check in the workplace

For all the good technology has brought to the workplace, there have been some negative side effects.

Blue-collar bluetooth blend

Hands-on tasks increasingly involve touch screens and an associated learning curve for many employees who joined the workforce in the analog age. This can be particularly true for commercial building operators and residential superintendents ...

Managing within the law

An employer may mean to provide its employees with fair employment contracts but when disputes arise, parties often disagree on the rights they ...
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Social media guidelines for employers

It is the responsibility of employers to ensure the rules governing the use of social media are clear and widely understood. This means educating staff on a ‘responsible use of technology’ policy or code of conduct and ...

Change in the workplace is a process not an event

When launching a significant change initiative, one of the biggest mistakes management makes is to view it as an event that happens at a single point in time. Accepting and then embracing change is a process, not an event.

Don’t get too personal during hiring process

Human rights legislation in Ontario place practical constraints on what information an employer may collect during the hiring process.
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Employee engagement that actually engages

participatory and collaborative methods bring people together and involve dynamic, multidirectional communication (leadership to employees, employees to leadership and employee to employee).
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Employers enlisted to prompt workers’ savings

Quebec’s voluntary retirement savings plans (VRSPs) to capture workers not formally enrolled in company pension or group retirement savings plans.
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Workplace pet peeves

Most bosses deal with employee-driven pet peeves like bad manners or using company time for personal phone calls on a daily basis. The problem is that while most of these pet peeves start off as small frustrations, they can turn into bigger ...