Reading Time: 3 minutes As economies shift to more domestic production, wages still face downward pressure – unless you can build, install or maintain new technologies
Tag: Labour shortage
Tech-driven employment apocalypse just a myth
Reading Time: 3 minutes In fact, as demographics shift, Canada faces chronic labour shortages
The rise of steel collar workers, the end of blue collar workers
Reading Time: 4 minutes Automation is taking over the workplace. That means our education system must adapt. So must the students seeking marketable skills
Young, educated Indigenous talent is ready
Reading Time: 3 minutes Canadians are retiring in unprecedented numbers and young couples are having fewer babies. Here’s how we can fill the workforce gaps
Ramping up immigration without a broad-based plan disastrous
Reading Time: 3 minutes The federal government’s plan to substantially increase new arrivals requires close co-ordination with provincial and municipal officials
Serving up an unpalatable business model
Reading Time: 4 minutes Restaurants are struggling to find staff and keep profit margins healthy. But automation and careful management can help
Stop trying to grow the economy on a hunch
Reading Time: 4 minutes As the government sets about designing a new innovation agenda, the case for evidence-based decision-making in innovation policy is urgent
B.C. tech sector held back by skills shortage
Reading Time: 3 minutes There is a growing mismatch between those still out of work and the vacancies that many employers desperately seek to fill
Let’s make room for skilled workers in Metro Vancouver
Reading Time: 3 minutes If housing costs remain high, and rental vacancy rates stay razor-thin, the region may soon be out of reach to locals and newcomers alike
The cloudy economic forecast is all wet
Reading Time: 3 minutes In Canada and the United States, wages are rising, poverty is falling and spending is on the rise – but we can’t be complacent