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A leader’s guide to managing remote employees: Empathy, flexibility key

Lots of staff are working from home for the first time, which means some managers are in new and uncharted territory


Slowing COVID-19 spread should be ‘singular objective’ of business leaders: Top Canadian CEOs

Social distancing is the only effective method, they argue


Alberta to provide paid job protected leave for workers in self-isolation

Employees will not need doctor’s notes, 90 day work requirement waived


Understanding work-related suicide after the Molson Coors shooting

All employers should pause to reflect on whether there are work conditions or circumstances that negatively impact workers


Amazon seeks to hire 100,000 to keep up with surge in orders

Crush of orders as coronavirus spreads and more people shop from home
 
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Internet can handle traffic spike from work at home: Experts

Italy – hard hit by coronavirus – has seen 30 per cent spikes in traffic » Read More
 
 
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Tired of COVID-19? Watch these penguins take a tour of a closed aquarium

The exhibit becomes the guest at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium » Read More
 
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Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in Alberta public sector union case

Union was challenging legislation passed last summer by province » Read More

Opinion: Employers need to give paid sick days to fight COVID-19

Managers should be good role models for staff by calling in when they’re sick, says Nita Chhinzer of the University of Guelph » Read More