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This Valentine’s Day, Take Good Care of Your Heart!
February is Heart Month in Canada! Promoted by Health Canada, Heart Month aims to raise awareness for heart-related illnesses and causes, while encouraging Canadians to take action to improve upon their own personal heart health. Heart disease is still one of the...
This Valentine’s Day, Take Good Care of Your Heart!
February is Heart Month in Canada! Promoted by Health Canada, Heart Month aims to raise awareness for heart-related illnesses and causes, while encouraging Canadians to take action to improve upon their own personal heart health. Heart disease is still one of the...
Investing Time Toward a Healthy Workplace Strategy in 2020
Are you ready to put “Important Work” ahead of “Urgent Work” for future dividends? In today’s environment of compressed time and high demands, important goals are often overshadowed by urgent matters, and before you know it, it’s 2021! If you already understand the...
Excellence Canada and Canada Life announce the 2019 Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month® Great Employers
TORONTO, Dec. 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Excellence Canada and Canada Life are pleased to announce the 2019 Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month® Great Employers. These organizations are being celebrated for their planning and actions to foster physically and...
Why Corporate Social Responsibility is Important to Canadian Employers
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a type of self-regulation that enables a business to be socially accountable to its employees, stakeholders, and local community. CSR typically involves the conscious effort to understand and optimize the organization’s impact...
What Does a Great Employer Look Like?
Every October, Canada’s Healthy Workplace Month celebrates success stories from organizations across the country. A healthy workplace is one in which the organization cares about the health, safety and wellness of its employees and establishes systems to achieve and...
Essential mental health tips for the workplace
In any given week, 500,000 Canadians are unable to work due to mental health problems or illnesses. If ignored, mental health issues can contribute to a cycle of low productivity and absenteeism. As such, employers and employees should work together to identify...
A comprehensive approach to promoting wellness in the workplace
Absenteeism and lost productivity due to mental health issues cost the Canadian economy almost $50 billion annually. Corporate wellness programs promote healthy behaviours that can reduce medical costs and improve employee productivity. The most effective programs...
How to ensure you have a supportive workplace for the sandwich generation
An aging population means that many young professionals are taking on the role of caregiver to their parents as well as their own children. Members of the sandwich generation feel the financial and emotional burden of mounting responsibility. As a result, work...
What employers can do to promote a healthy lifestyle
In 2018, health care expenditures cost the Canadian economy $253.5 billion, or $6,839 per person. Meanwhile, poor health also costs employers more in the form of lost productivity. Employee wellness should not be overlooked. Health is tied to organizational...
How to Help Reduce the Burden of Employee Financial Stress
Worrying about money is one of the most common stressors for Canadian employees. This stress affects not only the physical and mental health of employees but also their productivity levels. High stress levels among employees can cost companies hundreds of thousands of...
