INSIGHTS

Predicting Employee Salary Trends for 2025: What to Expect

What are Canadian businesses budgeting for salary increases in 2025?

Your Guide to Preparing for Pay Transparency – Everything you need to know

Pay transparency is the hottest HR news to come along in a while. A recent study shows 84% of Canadians favour laws requiring disclosure..

Getting The Most From Your HR

What is HR? Easy question...right? Well, it depends on whom you ask. HR is short for Human Resources. People (humans) are resources that...

Navigating Employee Sick Leave Claims

How to manage sick leave, employee absences, mental health absences, benefits, long-term disability, and accommodation.

New Requirements for Electronic Monitoring - Coming This Fall!

Is your business ready for the October 11 Ontario deadline to comply? Electronic monitoring is a pervasive element in our lives. We may...

The Great Resignation (and what to do about it)!

If you have not yet heard about the “Great Resignation”, that is probably a good thing. In the best of circumstances, that would be...

7 Proven Techniques to Increase Employee Productivity

One common query I frequently hear from business owners and supervisors is how to get employees to be more productive in their day-to-day...

Using Reopening as an Opportunity for a Fresh Start

All businesses have been impacted by the COVID-19 Pandemic in one way or another. Business owners and leaders have had to adjust and...

Maintaining Psychologically Safe Workplaces with Remote Teams

Maintaining the psychologically safe workplace—where team members feel safe to take risks and be vulnerable with each other—you worked so...

6 Signs That Your HR Needs an Upgrade

No matter how great our success or intentions, things change. Plain and simple. Samuel owns a successful small business. Five-star...

The Right Person For The Right Job – No Matter What!

I frequently passed by a building in downtown Ottawa where I often saw a particular Facilities’ employee working outside. He first made...

TAP - An Interview

Bruce Weippert, CHRL, CHRE, President of TAP Strategy was recently interviewed for an online article by Arete HR. Bruce was speaking to...

Something’s Got to Give

My circle of friends tell my husband and me that we are the most productive people they know. This may be true, but while we are busy...

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