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How to Boost Employee Productivity During the Summer Slump
Summer can be a challenging season for workplace productivity. But it’s also a chance to reconnect, reset, and support your team in ways that matter.

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How to Boost Employee Productivity During the Summer Slump
Summer can be a challenging season for workplace productivity. But it’s also a chance to reconnect, reset, and support your team in ways that matter.
Accessibility Progress Reports: Your 2025 Obligations as a Federally Regulated Employer
If you’re a federally regulated employer in Canada, your accessibility progress report is due June 1st 2025. Learn about your obligations here!
Breaking Barriers in the Trades: The Lady Plumber Leading Change
Women make up less than 5% of tradespeople in Canada — but that number is slowly rising thanks to industry leaders like Mary-Anne.
Neurodiversity in the Workplace: An Employer’s Guide to Supporting Employees
Listen to this Blog Duration: 0:00 Neurodiversity is a simple but powerful idea: our brains work in different ways. And that’s a good thing! There are an estimated 600,000 neurodiverse adults in Canada. That’s a whole lot of brainpower showing up differently (and brilliantly) across our teams. In the workplace, this includes both neurotypical and… Read More »Neurodiversity in the Workplace: An Employer’s Guide to Supporting Employees
How to Protect Your Business Without Downsizing Your Workforce
In today’s unpredictable economy, the instinct to downsize your team may seem like the quickest & easiest way to cut costs. But is downsizing the right answer?
How to Prepare for BC Pay Transparency in 2025
Pay transparency helps foster a workplace rooted in trust and fairness. Learn about your key obligations for 2025 as it relates to BC’s Pay Transparency Act.

Extreme Makeover: Offer Letter Edition

We are always looking for ways to improve the employee journey. Lucky for us, we get to guinea pig lots of our ideas on ourselves. We recently noticed a small breakdown in the branding experience for candidates at the offer letter stage. What a missed opportunity! The offer letter represents a key milestone in the…
Impress Your Interviewer: Top 5 Questions to Ask in an Interview

In an interview, there are a few red flags that most employers look for. What most candidates don’t realize is that there is another small, but significant pivot point in an interview. When given the golden opportunity to flip the script and ask interviewers questions, many applicants politely decline. Why can such an innocent interaction…
Interview Best Practices: How to Improve the Candidate Experience

Though it may seem like a straightforward process, navigating an interview (whether it’s by phone or in-person) can be daunting for someone who has never done it before. Even for a seasoned interviewer, there are subtleties that can elevate your interview from ‘meh’ to ‘marvellous’! Let us show you some of tricks and tips to implementing…
Musings: Culture Is Manifested, Not Created

Conversations about creating culture have always intrigued me. Our collective obsession with copying the cultures of massive companies like Google and Facebook fascinates me even more.
The Importance of Wellness in the Workplace: Q&A with Mais Oweis of Heritage Office Furnishings

Wellness in the workplace. This topic is continuously evolving. Health and wellness means different things to different people – so how does a company develop a wellness program that supports all employees? What kind of tools support ongoing wellness, versus a one-time ‘quick-fix’ initiative?
How to Foster a Culture of Belonging: Culture LabX 2018 Recap

“What Does Belonging Mean to You?” The simplest concepts are often the hardest to define. HR definitions can mean many different things to different people. Interpreting how to build a culture of belonging in the workplace is difficult. Where does this sense of ‘belonging’ begin in the employee experience, and where does it end? Is there a…