Workplace wellness programs: health, massage or coaching? Workplace wellness programs — Organizing fitness classes a few floors down from your office can be done! Faced with the growing preoccupation of Canadians with health and wellness, many companies are making exercise rooms available to their employees right on the premises. Inciting employees to exercise could decrease […]
The prelude to burn-out: burn-in! Burn-In. Presenteeism at work constitutes one of the main concerns of Canadian companies with more than 250 employees, showed a recent survey by Watson Wyatt Canada, which places this phenomenon in 7th place of employer concerns. Placed at the very top, just above an aging workforce, is workers mental health. Yet […]
Rise in work-related deaths The Federation of workers of Quebec (FTQ) finds the 20% rise of work-related deaths in 2005 alarming compared to the two previous years. The number has increased from 175 to 225 in two years. If an employer, by action or omission, behaves in a way that seriously and directly compromises the […]
