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Leadership Perspectives
Ep. 22: HR Trends and the Canadian Workforce Outlook with Lauren Florko
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The last two years have changed the way we work and has made us reconsider ways of working, both from an employer and an employee point-of-view. While we know things have changed, data on how this is impacting workplaces is still quite sparse. This episode we hear how the Conference Board of Canada’s Human Capital team is working to fill in the gaps in HR trends and metrics.
We explore: what’s really happening with Canada’s “great resignation”; how to approach employee engagement; why some companies are adjusting their engagement strategies to deal with current and future challenges; and how where you work (remote, onsite or hybrid) is impacting these key metrics. These trends provide critical insights into the workforce and workplace of the future.
The full story:
To access the research: https://www.conferenceboard.ca/focus-areas/human-resources/canadian-hr-metrics-benchmarking
To participate in the survey: https://ca1se.voxco.com/SE/82/hrmetrics2021/
About our guest:
Lauren Florko is a Senior Research Associate in the Human Capital and Inclusion research teams. Lauren has an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Saint Mary’s University.
She is a talent management and organizational development professional with experience in public, private, for-profit, and not-for-profit organizations working both at a local and global level. She has worked in areas such as diversity & inclusion, organizational development, engagement, performance management, succession planning, and change management.
She has led and worked on research on workplace stress, selection testing, gender bias, work-life balance, and psychometrics. Her current research interests include people strategy within a corporate social responsibility framework and inclusive workplace development/design.
In her spare time she writes for Psychology Today and is the Vice President of the board for the CoRe Conflict Resolution Society.
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