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Canada’s workplaces lack mental health strategy

Real estate sector among a few industries more likely to have implemented a mental health strategy into its workplace.

Canadian Property Management

Leadership development termed vital expense

When it comes to leadership development, bigger companies aren’t always better, states the Conference Board of Canada’s first leadership benchmarking study.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

HOK Toronto’s new Pinterest-inspired home

HOK Toronto recently earned an ARIDO award of merit for the design of its Pinterest-inspired new offices.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

How FMs can support employment standards

The latest phase of accessibility regulations in Ontario may concern employment standards, but facility managers have a role to play in compliance.

Building Strategies & Sustainability

Designing for better waste management

A building's design influences the operational efficiency waste collection programs, the cost of servicing the programs and diversion rates.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

The ergonomic hazards of hoteling stations

Hoteling stations come with not only financial benefits but ergonomics hazards. Experts explain how to ensure the safe use of shared desks.

Canadian Property Management

Open office format mainly a for-profit trend

Easy access to public transit tops the list of preferred attributes for office location among 50 non-profit organizations recently surveyed about workplace needs and priorities.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

The rise of integrated facility management

An increasing number of facility managers are looking to integrated facility management services in their quest to improve quality of life in the workplace.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

The RCMP’s new Nova Scotia headquarters

The design of the RCMP's new Nova Scotia headquarters reconciles its requirements of internal security and external accountability.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Measuring productivity amid digital disruption

In the competitive global marketplace, investors and building owners must focus more on the workers inside buildings, not just the buildings themselves.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

The mental health link to workplace productivity

Organizations could reduce workplace productivity losses by nearly half if they addressed the three types of barriers employees face in accessing mental health care, finds a CAMH study published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Employee engagement key to business change

Despite proof that employee engagement is critical to successful business change, organizations pay scant attention to the people dimension of change.

REMI Network

Portfolio Entertainment expands into new studio

Portfolio Entertainment has relocated its corporate office to its new creative-driven animation studio in Toronto’s King West neighbourhood.

CondoBusiness

Contractor fined after worker injuries at condo

Powerline Plus Limited, an overhead and underground utility contractor, pleaded guilty and was fined $80,000 following the injury of two workers who suffered burns while working on electrical equipment that had not been properly shut off.

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Deloitte Tower office designed for socializing

Deloitte has unveiled its ‘more social’ office space in the new Deloitte Tower in Montreal’s Quartier de l'innovation.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Restroom conditions reflect on workplace: survey

Most men and women (89 per cent) judge how the workplace values its employees by the condition of the restroom, according to the 2015 Healthy Hand Washing Survey.

Canadian Facility Management & Design

Match Marketing forgoes move for office reno

The recent renovation of Match Marketing’s Mississauga offices delivered a cafe and patio — both features that have become must-haves for ad agencies.