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By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 3 Minutes Read April 6, 2021

Working from home report: productivity

On April 1, 2021, Statistics Canada released a report regarding working from home and worker productivity. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the significant increase in telework that has taken place since mid-March 2020, the report focused on questions involving the extent of productivity, barriers to productivity, and preferences concerning post-pandemic work.

Article by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD / Business, Employee Relations / accommodation, COVID-19, employment law, pandemic, remote work, telework, worker productivity, working from home

By Occasional Contributors | 3 Minutes Read April 21, 2020

Human Rights Commissioner publications on COVID-19 employment issues

In this time of rapidly changing circumstances, neither the Human Rights Tribunal nor the courts have had time to weigh in on whether COVID-19 amounts to a disability. However, in my view as BC’s Human Rights Commissioner, it does.

Article by Occasional Contributors / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Human Rights / accommodation, BC Human Rights Commission, COVID-19, discrimination based on disability, employment law, human rights, sick leave, telework, work from home arrangements

By Adam Gorley | 4 Minutes Read September 16, 2013

Does management limit engagement?

"Disengagement is not an employee problem. It is a hangover from the Industrial Age that invented a middle tier in companies so useless and intrusive that a cartoon strip called Dilbert is the best picture we have of how it functions." Those are the words of author Chuck Blakeman. What do you think?

Article by Adam Gorley / Employee Relations, Payroll / best employers in Canada, Chuck Blakeman, control over work, disengagement, division of labour, eliminating managers, employee development, employee engagement, employee management, employee retention, employment law, engagement, flex hours, flexible scheduling, flexible work arrangements, Frederick Taylor, Generation Y, Jim Clifton, leaders not managers, scientific management, telecommuting, telework, unconventional benefits, work environment

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