Canadian HR Reporter

CANADIAN HR REPORTER April 18, 2016 4 HR BY THE NUMBERS translation $953 Average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees in January, down 0.7 per cent from the previous month. 2.3% Year-over-year growth in average weekly earnings in Quebec, the province with the highest growth. 0.4% Year-over-year growth in average weekly earnings in Manitoba, the province with the weakest growth. 4.3% Decline in average weekly earnings in Alberta compared to January 2015, the largest year-over-year decline for the province since comparable data in 2001. 10,200 Decline in the number of non-farm payroll jobs in January, following an increase of 41,700 in December. 136,100 Compared with 12 months earlier, the rise in the number of non-farm payroll employees. 2.6% Increase in the number of payroll jobs in health care and social assistance, and accommodation and food services — the sectors seeing the biggest gains. 13.2% Decline in the number payroll jobs in mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction, on a year- over-year basis. 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Communication. Communicating HR initia- tives companywide is the most signifi cant challenge for survey of nearly 300 American organizations. of organizations, according to a 79.3% of organizations rely on emails from leadership most for communication. 76% rely on all-company meetings. 75.3% rely on manager and worker one-on-ones. 13% of employees receive monthly or quarterly progress updates. Employees whose managers follow up with them after an employee engagement survey are 12 times more likely to be engaged the following year. Source: Quantum Workplace Exit strategy Departing employees may have a lot to say — both good and bad — but how often do employers actually act on information from exit interviews? More than one-half or 54 per cent of HR managers said their organization acts on the in- formation frequently, according to a Canadian survey of more than 200 HR managers. Credit: Tond Van Graphcraft (Shutterstock) 46% discuss feedback regarding management. 20% make changes to the work environment or corporate culture. 14% update job descriptions. 10% review employee salaries. 8% review employee benefi ts. What actions does HR take? Source: OfficeTeam Productivity crash How good is your company tech infrastructure? Source: Robert Half Technology Wealth in translation translation translation translation translation translation translation in in translation translation translation translation On average, employees lose two full weeks or per day of productivity each year due to IT-related issues, according to a survey of 300 Canadian work- ers. Despite this, nearly one-half of employees still rate their organization's IT infrastructure as "good" or "excellent."

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