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Canada Life | July 29, 2020

With an aim to accelerate and build the company’s diversity and inclusion strategy, four new leaders and two new roles have been added to Canada Life’s Diversity Leadership Council. The announcement comes just one week after the company signed the BlackNorth Initiative, which pledges to support the removal of systemic barriers affecting people of colour at work and in the community. “With 11,000 employees across the country, diversity and inclusion has always been a focus and c...

Canada Life | April 17, 2020

The Canada Life Assurance Company today announced it is cutting group health insurance premiums for its employer-sponsored group benefits plans to support Canadians and small- and medium-sized businesses facing hardship as a result of the global COVID-19 outbreak. "Small- and medium-sized businesses are an integral part of the Canadian economy. We recognize that many businesses are challenged right now and we are wholeheartedly committed to supporting them however we can,” says Jeff M...

RECRUITMENT & RETENTION

Appcast | March 02, 2021

Appcast analysis reveals job applications submitted via mobile devices last year exceeded those subsisted via desktop. According to the analysis of some 7 million applications to nearly 1.300 US employers. It is also observed that mobile applications made up nearly 61% of all submissions in the recruiting technology firms analysis. “Gig” and transportation job functions saw the highest percentage of mobile applications among the 24 industries analyzed. The foodservice ...

HR ANALYTICS,EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE

Productiv | December 14, 2022

Today Productiv announced new strategic collaborations to make it easier for businesses to unlock the most value from their SaaS portfolios at scale. Today’s news comes as companies are looking more critically at reducing spend and optimizing costs in an uncertain economic climate. In particular, business leaders are looking for solutions to help IT, finance and procurement teams align on spend visibility, spend rationalization and renewal management – especially for SaaS application...