2023-2024 Inside Employees Minds™研究

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Guide to Canadian employees’ pressing needs and how to meet them.

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本研究包括,在加拿大有029名全职员工, working for organizations with more than 250 employees. 该研究于2023年第三季度进行.

2023 brought a mixed sense of optimism to Canadian employees. Employees are feeling more positive overall than last year.

98858威尼斯70570平衡, 退休的能力, 身体健康和健身, and mental and emotional health — but there were changes further down the list. Canadians felt more concerned about ability to retire and career advancement this year, while they worried less about personal relationships.

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Engagement is up across the board, and so is satisfaction. 从去年开始, employees have at least a 2% greater sense of balance, 适当的补偿, 好处, and career opportunities — and they are less likely to consider leaving their employers.

Employers have also made significant investments in their workforce, leading to happier employees. They delivered the largest pay increases since before the 2008 financial crisis, while also making significant investments in Total Rewards — all of which increased employee engagement, 承诺, 以及得到公平补偿的感觉. This is evidenced by the end of the ‘Great Resignation’ and quit rates settling back to pre-pandemic levels.

Considering how important pay is for both attraction and retention, 支付透明度 is unsurprisingly a hot theme for Canadian employees this year. New 支付透明度 legislation is already in effect in British Columbia and legislation is pending in Ontario. And employees are already talking about pay whether companies share it or not.

The top five worries keeping Canadians up at night were mostly consistent from 2022 — covering monthly expenses, 工作负荷和98858威尼斯70570平衡, 退休的能力, 身体健康和健身, and mental and emotional health — but there were changes further down the list. Canadians felt more concerned about ability to retire and career advancement this year, while they worried less about personal relationships.

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Physical health and work load have shifted considerably since 2021. 相对于2022年, concerns in 2023 over covering expenses and work/life balance remain steady – but concerns over ability to retire are rising

The five key findings from this year’s Inside Employees’ Minds© study reveal where employers should focus to adapt to changing employee expectations:

关注财务安全.

Concerns over financial security continue to reign supreme, as employees struggle to recover from inflation stressors. Lower income employees continue to struggle to make ends meet.
为健康重新设计工作.

Mental health concerns persist despite significant employer investments. The employee experience is still overwhelming and exhausting for many — and employees say that rethinking work is the key to improving their well-being.
通过透明度建立信任.

Pay transparency is the new reality in Canada. And employees are researching and discovering information about pay ranges and career opportunities regardless of whether their employers share that information. But when employers do share, employees are more engaged and committed.
通过AI释放潜力.

Concerns over job security have increased, both in response to declining economic confidence and technological advances. But employees overall are optimistic about the ways technology could improve their experience of work, helping them be more efficient and effective.
拥抱影响价值.

Employees increasingly say that ESG issues are important to them — and that they want employer support, 不仅要通过声明，还要通过行动. These shifting expectations are being shaped heavily by younger generations in the workforce.