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1. Research to Insights: Working from home in Canada
Stats in brief: 11-631-X2024001
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a substantial increase in work from home in Canada. This presentation synthesizes what has been learned to date regarding this increase in work from home and documents its potential implications for productivity, employee retention, commuting, greenhouse gas emissions, and public transit use.
Release date: 2024-01-18
2. Flexible work schedules, 2022
Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202300100007
Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Flexible hours indicator is the number of employed persons who can choose the start and end time of their workday, expressed as a percentage of all employed persons.
Release date: 2023-06-13
3. Unionization in Canada, 1981 to 2022
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202201100001
Description:
The Canadian economy has experienced numerous changes over the last four decades. Employment has moved away from manufacturing and towards service sector jobs. Technological changes have brought computer-based technologies and, more recently, robotics and artificial intelligence to the workplace. World prices of oil and natural resources have fluctuated considerably. Since March 2020, work arrangements have been altered substantially, with thousands of employees starting to work from home. In this evolving context, how have unionization rates evolved in Canada over the last four decades? This article uses data from the Survey of Work History of 1981 and the Labour Force Survey to answer this question.

Release date: 2022-11-23
4. Employer responses to labour shortages
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200700001
Description:
As the labour market recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to assess which strategies Canadian employers plan to use over the next few months to cope with labour scarcity. This study documents the strategies that private sector businesses expecting labour shortages at the beginning of 2022 plan to use during that year to deal with personnel recruitment, retention and training. The study also investigates the degree to which businesses’ plans to offer telework and flexible scheduling varies across industries.

Release date: 2022-07-27
5. Who Wins and Who Loses in the Gig Economy?
Stats in brief: 45-20-00032021005
Description:
This fourth installment of Eh-Sayers focusses on the growing market of gigs and their place in an ever-changing landscape of job flexibility and/or instability. What are the socio-economic benefits and drawbacks of a gig worker and how are they affected by Covid-19? As more people work remotely and the workday structure changes due to Covid-19, How will the Canadian economy reflect these changes moving forward? Paul Glavin, associate professor, Department of Sociology at McMaster University discusses the impact and acceleration, freedom and limitations for gig workers across the nation.

Release date: 2022-01-07
6. Public transit in a post-COVID-19 Canada
Articles and reports: 45-28-0001202100100030
Description: Public health measures first enacted in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a massive shift to remote work and learning, contributing to historic year-over-year transit ridership declines in the months that followed. Using data from the Monthly Passenger Bus and Urban Transit Survey and the Labour Force Survey, this study traces the impact of working from home on the number of public transit passengers and points to other data that may help to shape a new normal for the public transit industry.
Release date: 2021-07-30
7. A look at the potential impact of telework on public transit and greenhouse gas emissions using 2015 data Archived
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021040
Description: This infographic examines the potential effects on public transit use, traffic congestion, and greenhouse gas emissions if all Canadians who usually work outside the home in jobs that can be done from home started to telework.
Release date: 2021-04-22
8. Inequality in the feasibility of working from home during and after COVID-19 Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100029
Description:
The economic lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 has led to steep declines in employment and hours worked for many Canadians. For workers in essential services, in jobs that can be done with proper physical distancing measures or in jobs that can be done from home, the likelihood of experiencing a work interruption during the pandemic is lower than for other workers. This article assesses how the feasibility of working from home varies across Canadian families. It also considers the implications of these differences for family earnings inequality.

Release date: 2020-06-08
9. Running the economy remotely: Potential for working from home during and after COVID-19 Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100026
Description:
Physical distancing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in a large number of Canadians working from home, many for the first time. This sudden transition in how the economy is operating raises questions about how many jobs can reasonably be performed from home.
Release date: 2020-05-28
10. Measuring the Gig Economy in Canada Using Administrative Data
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2019025
Description:
This study identifies gig workers based on characteristics of their work arrangements and how these are reported in tax data. It introduces a definition of gig work specific to the way work arrangements are reported in the Canadian tax system and estimates the size of the gig economy in Canada using administrative data. The share of gig workers among all workers rose from 5.5% in 2005 to 8.2% in 2016. Some of this increase coincided with the introduction and proliferation of online platforms. The analysis highlights gender differences in the trends and characteristics of gig workers. By linking administrative data to 2016 Census microdata, this study also examines educational and occupational differences in the prevalence of gig workers.
Release date: 2019-12-16

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1. Workplace and Employee Survey Compendium Archived
Table: 71-585-X
Description:
This compendium provides data from the new Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) conducted by Statistics Canada with the support of Human Resources Development Canada. The survey consists of two components: (1) a workplace survey on the adoption of technologies, organizational change, training and other human resource practices, business strategies, and labour turnover in workplaces; and (2) a survey of employees within these same workplaces covering wages, hours of work, job type, human capital, use of technologies and training. The result is a rich new source of linked information on workplaces and their employees.

Release date: 2008-09-24
2. Overview of the Time Use of Canadians Archived
Table: 12F0080X
Description:
This publication presents a series of tabulations produced from the General Social Survey on time use of Canadians. It includes information on average amounts of time spent on various activities by sex, by age, by selected role groups.
Release date: 2006-07-12

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1. Research to Insights: Working from home in Canada
Stats in brief: 11-631-X2024001
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a substantial increase in work from home in Canada. This presentation synthesizes what has been learned to date regarding this increase in work from home and documents its potential implications for productivity, employee retention, commuting, greenhouse gas emissions, and public transit use.
Release date: 2024-01-18
2. Flexible work schedules, 2022
Articles and reports: 14-28-0001202300100007
Description: In the publication Quality of Employment in Canada, the Flexible hours indicator is the number of employed persons who can choose the start and end time of their workday, expressed as a percentage of all employed persons.
Release date: 2023-06-13
3. Unionization in Canada, 1981 to 2022
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202201100001
Description:
The Canadian economy has experienced numerous changes over the last four decades. Employment has moved away from manufacturing and towards service sector jobs. Technological changes have brought computer-based technologies and, more recently, robotics and artificial intelligence to the workplace. World prices of oil and natural resources have fluctuated considerably. Since March 2020, work arrangements have been altered substantially, with thousands of employees starting to work from home. In this evolving context, how have unionization rates evolved in Canada over the last four decades? This article uses data from the Survey of Work History of 1981 and the Labour Force Survey to answer this question.

Release date: 2022-11-23
4. Employer responses to labour shortages
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200700001
Description:
As the labour market recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to assess which strategies Canadian employers plan to use over the next few months to cope with labour scarcity. This study documents the strategies that private sector businesses expecting labour shortages at the beginning of 2022 plan to use during that year to deal with personnel recruitment, retention and training. The study also investigates the degree to which businesses’ plans to offer telework and flexible scheduling varies across industries.

Release date: 2022-07-27
5. Who Wins and Who Loses in the Gig Economy?
Stats in brief: 45-20-00032021005
Description:
This fourth installment of Eh-Sayers focusses on the growing market of gigs and their place in an ever-changing landscape of job flexibility and/or instability. What are the socio-economic benefits and drawbacks of a gig worker and how are they affected by Covid-19? As more people work remotely and the workday structure changes due to Covid-19, How will the Canadian economy reflect these changes moving forward? Paul Glavin, associate professor, Department of Sociology at McMaster University discusses the impact and acceleration, freedom and limitations for gig workers across the nation.

Release date: 2022-01-07
6. Public transit in a post-COVID-19 Canada
Articles and reports: 45-28-0001202100100030
Description: Public health measures first enacted in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a massive shift to remote work and learning, contributing to historic year-over-year transit ridership declines in the months that followed. Using data from the Monthly Passenger Bus and Urban Transit Survey and the Labour Force Survey, this study traces the impact of working from home on the number of public transit passengers and points to other data that may help to shape a new normal for the public transit industry.
Release date: 2021-07-30
7. A look at the potential impact of telework on public transit and greenhouse gas emissions using 2015 data Archived
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2021040
Description: This infographic examines the potential effects on public transit use, traffic congestion, and greenhouse gas emissions if all Canadians who usually work outside the home in jobs that can be done from home started to telework.
Release date: 2021-04-22
8. Inequality in the feasibility of working from home during and after COVID-19 Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100029
Description:
The economic lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 has led to steep declines in employment and hours worked for many Canadians. For workers in essential services, in jobs that can be done with proper physical distancing measures or in jobs that can be done from home, the likelihood of experiencing a work interruption during the pandemic is lower than for other workers. This article assesses how the feasibility of working from home varies across Canadian families. It also considers the implications of these differences for family earnings inequality.

Release date: 2020-06-08
9. Running the economy remotely: Potential for working from home during and after COVID-19 Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100026
Description:
Physical distancing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in a large number of Canadians working from home, many for the first time. This sudden transition in how the economy is operating raises questions about how many jobs can reasonably be performed from home.
Release date: 2020-05-28
10. Measuring the Gig Economy in Canada Using Administrative Data
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2019025
Description:
This study identifies gig workers based on characteristics of their work arrangements and how these are reported in tax data. It introduces a definition of gig work specific to the way work arrangements are reported in the Canadian tax system and estimates the size of the gig economy in Canada using administrative data. The share of gig workers among all workers rose from 5.5% in 2005 to 8.2% in 2016. Some of this increase coincided with the introduction and proliferation of online platforms. The analysis highlights gender differences in the trends and characteristics of gig workers. By linking administrative data to 2016 Census microdata, this study also examines educational and occupational differences in the prevalence of gig workers.
Release date: 2019-12-16

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