Every five years since the early 90s, the UK government has tracked something called “work intensity” and what they’ve found is disturbing if not surprising: more people are saying they work harder to tighter deadlines under greater levels of...
It’s a secret to no one that for a long time, women have had to overcome systemic disadvantages in the workplace…and the pandemic did not help. As we’ve explored in other episodes, the lock downs of recent years have affected women (and working...
“You would think in the whole hiring process… it would be more sophisticated than it is. It is still stuck in the same way it was twenty, thirty, forty years ago!” – Jack Kelly, Founder & CEO of WeCruitr, The Nexus...
Last week, it was announced the unemployment rate in the US was 3.6%, the lowest since February 2020, and below market projections for this year. In Canada, the rate stands at 5.3% – the lowest unemployment rate since 1976! To put this in...
The Times They Are a-Changin’ … 2022 has been a year of employee backlash from trucker convoys to vaccine mandates to protesting anti-union tactics, all playing out against a backdrop of shifting supply chains and tight talent markets...
“Out of Sight, Out of Mind…” Here at the Nexus, we love it when our guests give us (intentionally or otherwise) the subject of our next episode. That is exactly what Future Forum’s Helen Kupp did for us recently. In our...
Hybrid – the “messy middle” of work. Employees in the talent pool love it, a lot of managers hate it, and the uncertainty around it is making a number of people nervous. In our last episode, we brought you two case studies: a...
To office or not to office… that is the question. With all vaccine mandates, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions (and now, Omicron) it’s probably hard to know what the best approach to working your people may require. So, we thought to...
Why A Diverse Culture Is Better For Everyone By now, many of you have probably heard about NHL player Kyle Beach, who was sexually abused by a coach while playing with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2010. His story is proof of how pernicious the issue...
Why are the majority of BIPOC Employees reporting that they prefer remote work? A survey of North American workers recently revealed that a vast majority of Black employees prefer remote work. The reason? They feel more accepted by co-workers...