by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Leadership, Remote Work
During the global Covid-19 health crisis, the shift to online and remote work—and debates about its viability—were unavoidable. Now, years later, conflicting opinions of this model remain. Employees prefer remote work for the flexibility it provides, while employers...
by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Future of Work, Skills
This week, a first-of-its-kind study from Stanford put numbers to AI and the job market. The paper says not only is AI taking jobs, it is making it harder for young people to find work, and pointed to traditional tech roles like software developers as being most...
by dankeelan | Dec 9, 2025 | Featured, Future of Work, Gen Z
As Generation Z—those born between 1997 and 2012—enters the workforce in growing numbers, Canadian employers are encountering a cohort whose expectations and behaviors signal a fundamental shift from current norms. Unlike previous generations, Gen Z brings pragmatic...
by dankeelan | Dec 2, 2025 | Featured, U.S. Economy
A big reason the term is popping up so often is that it helps explain an unusually muddy and convoluted period for the US economy. Growth appears solid, yet hiring is sluggish, and the unemployment rate has ticked up. Overall, consumer spending is still rising, but...
by dankeelan | Dec 2, 2025 | Cybersecurity, Featured, Insurance
For much of the past five years, the biggest worry for many commercial insurance clients has been brutally tangible: the soaring cost of rebuilding. Conversations were dominated by materials inflation, labour shortages and construction delays after COVID-19. Today,...
by dankeelan | Dec 2, 2025 | Featured, Gig Workers
According to a poll of over 1,020 owners by parts company American Trucks, fully 70 percent of pickup owners said they’d begun using their vehicles for side hustles or gig work over the past year. Both demand for their services and the income truck owners generated...
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