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How will we work in 2030? Which skills, tools, innovations and ideas could change our lives? A new report from the Brookfield Institute for Innovation + Entrepreneurship (BII+E) explores the biggest social, political, economic, environmental and technological trends driving Canada s labour market in the decade ahead.
TORONTO, Feb. 11, 2021 /CNW/ - Shifting global power dynamics, the shecession, and the rapid adoption of remote work: Canada s economy is reeling from a host of changes that have been accelerated, disrupted, or created by COVID-19.
Yesterday s Gone: Exploring possible futures of Canada s labour market in a post-COVID world, a new report from the Brookfield Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (BII+E) at Ryerson University, sets out to understand the breadth of potential changes ahead so that we can better prepare workers and employers for the future of Canada s labour market.
As Canadians continue to adjust their lives during this pandemic, one study suggests that working from home could become a permanent thing, causing a possible decline in urban living and an “unprecedented population growth” in the country’s rural areas.”
Pandemic, floorspace expansion delay opening of Toronto’s Indigenous Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship until 2022
Toronto’s Indigenous Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ICIE) is now expected to open in 2022, following delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic and a floorspace expansion to 22,000 square feet. The Centre was originally scheduled to open by the end of 2020.
“The Indigenous Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship will be Indigenous-led, and with a predominant Indigenous board.”
A City of Toronto project designed with input from the local Indigenous community, the ICIE will be located on City-owned space at 200 Dundas Street East. The Centre hopes to provide opportunities for the local Indigenous community to explore entrepreneurial aspirations by providing business programming, advisory services, mentorship support, shared co-workspace, community event space, and connections to business networks.
The workplace of the future will probably remain under surveillance
The pandemic unleashed new forms of digital employee surveillance that are likely here to stay
December 15, 2020 Workers are screened for COVID-19 as they enter the Toyota plant in Cambridge, Ont.(Courtesy of Toyota Canada)
In a video he recorded on his smartphone in-person tours are out of the question these days senior national manager of external affairs Scott MacKenzie demonstrates what the entrance procedure looks like for workers at the Toyota plant in Cambridge, Ont. He walks from the parking lot through a set of revolving doors, which have signs asking workers to please use their elbows to push them.