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Your top performers may be struggling while the output stays high
Strong results can hide distress. Early, low-stigma check-ins with high performers protect key people before a sudden drop in output, absence or exit.
Canada's job market is uneven, and hiring plans should reflect it
A C.D. Howe report finds trade risk, weak productivity and demographic shifts are splitting Canada's labour market by region, sector and age group.
Brazil moves to a 40-hour week, and Canadian employers with LatAm teams should plan
Brazil's lower house voted for a 40-hour, five-day week with no pay cut. The Senate has yet to act, but employers with Latin American staff should prepare now.
Resilience can be taught, and employers can build it into daily work
A Talent Canada piece argues resilience is a learnable set of daily habits, not a trait. Here is what that means for how you hire and support your teams.
Food insecurity among working Canadians is now a workplace issue
A National Payroll Institute survey finds one in four employed Canadians struggle to afford basics, and unstable hours make it worse.
Federal probe asks what counts as paid work for cabin crew
A union says airline wage audits use too narrow a definition of work. The dispute could shape how employers count hours and pay under the Canada Labour Code.
Burnout is costing Canadian employers up to $28,500 a head
New Canadian data puts burnout at nearly 39 per cent of employees, and the cost of pushing through shows up in output well before attendance drops.
Ottawa weighs express entry points for high-wage job offers
Ottawa is consulting on express entry changes that would reward high-wage job offers and merge three streams into one. Here is what employers should watch.
First Canadian gig-worker contract sets a new bar for platform labour
About 1,000 Uber drivers in Greater Victoria now have a four-year collective agreement. Here is what it signals for employers who rely on flexible workers.
Frontline workers are holding shifts together, and many are thinking of leaving
New Dayforce research says 71 per cent of frontline workers and managers have considered quitting over shift-level problems that leaders may not see.
Hiring for today's job description leaves teams brittle tomorrow
A Talent Canada column says employers that hire only to the current job description fall behind when roles change. Here is what to adjust in your hiring.
Without a written IP clause, your employee may own what they build
An Ontario appeal decision shows an employer can lose copyright in software a hire built on the side, when no contract addressed ownership or outside work.
Management style is now a hiring variable, not just a culture note
New BrightHR research maps four management styles and regional differences across Canada. Here is what it means for how you hire and keep managers.
Entry-level hiring is narrowing, and employers carry the risk
A new Canadian survey shows the first rung of the career ladder is getting harder to reach, and employers who stop hiring juniors may pay for it later.
Burnout shows up in rework and slow decisions before resignations
A Talent Canada column argues well-being is an operating issue. Here is what hiring managers can take from it, and what to check on their own teams first.
Bank of Canada sees AI reshaping jobs, not erasing them yet
A Bank of Canada deputy governor says AI has not caused widespread job losses, but entry-level roles and AI skills are where employers should look first.
Frustrated and burned out are different problems for managers
Talent Canada says workers who say they are burned out may only be frustrated, and the fix for each is different. Hiring managers can spot the signs early.
Training starts at the offer stage, not on day one of onboarding
An opinion piece in Talent Canada argues that learning begins in recruitment and that manager education and follow-through matter more than course completion.
Canadian employers are rewriting job requirements around AI agents
A KPMG Canada survey of 306 executives shows hiring and performance criteria are already shifting as companies plan for teams of people and AI agents.
Better DC plan design is becoming a hiring advantage in Canada
Mercer says flexible DC plans, annuity options and private market exposure could bring retirement readiness forward by three years or more for some workers.
Canadian employers carry most of the $180 billion mental health bill
A new CSA report puts the yearly cost of mental health at $180 billion, with employers paying more than $110 billion, mostly after problems have already...
A 90-second water break is a cheap answer to workday strain
A Talent Canada piece on mindful hydration points to a low-cost way for employers to ease stress and protect focus on busy days.
Rising drug plan costs are changing what benefits cost you
Telus Health data shows specialty and ultra-high-cost drugs are driving private plan spend, and employers hiring in 2026 should expect it to shape benefits...
Work-life balance is now the top stressor for workers worldwide
A global study of 88 million employees ranks work-life balance as the leading driver of stress, with direct implications for retention and how teams speak up.
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- Decision models like Jev handle what SQL rules cannot. Here's how data teams use themData platforms make decisions all day. An SQL query keeps the rows over a threshold, matches a keyword, and joins two tables on a shared ID. A pipeline sends a failed job down a retry path. Rules like these work when the answer sits in the data in a clean form. Read moreOct 19, 2026
- Gartner says agent costs will rise fivefold by 2028 even as tokens get cheaper. Here is how to keep them in checkFalling token prices have led many enterprises to assume AI costs will fall with them. Agents are breaking that assumption. Read moreOct 16, 2026
- A new framework teaches AI models to audit and repair each other’s reasoning, improving accuracyEnterprise multi-agent workflows typically use rigid, pre-scripted pipelines or simple voting mechanisms to aggregate the responses of multiple agents. These approaches break down when complex problems cannot be divided into neat subtasks in advance or none of the models in the AI system has the complete answer. Read moreOct 16, 2026
- Up to 60% of GPU compute goes to recomputing context. Flash storage can put that capacity back to workGPUs running large language model inference can spend up to 60% of their compute recalculating context they already processed, says Alan McSeveney, field CTO at WEKA. Speaking with VentureBeat lead analyst Rob Strechay at the latest stop in the VentureBeat AI Impact Series, McSeveney said the waste goes back to how large language models hold conversation history in GPU memory, arguing that fixing it lets companies serve several times more users on hardware they already own. The efficiencies...Oct 16, 2026
- Reflection's Beam aims to undercut Chinese open models with fewer tokens, not cheaper tokensReflection AI today released the weights of Beam, its first open model, and is pitching it against the Chinese open models that many U.S. companies are already embracing because of their lower costs. Read moreOct 16, 2026
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