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Launch of a new tool to tackle ecoanxiety

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new tool entitled Managing Ecoanxiety: Mobilizing employees for action. The tool is now available to all Global-Watch affiliated employers, and contains practical tips for acting on your employees’ ecoanxiety.

Guide Bien-être en télétravail

Properly prepare for your day working remotely

We present this guide on well-being while working remotely, which, we hope, will help you better manage your time, the boundaries between your personal life and your professional life and the use of diverse technologies, with the goal of helping you take care of your physical and mental health.

Thematic dossier : Nutrition

This thematic dossier includes 2 tools dedicated to human resources managers, 5 information and awareness fact sheets intended for employees and 1 complementary tool on physical activity. More than 60 scientific references were considered in the development of this file.

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Free videos – Thematic dossier: New workplace realities: organizational initiatives and management practices that promote mental health

Video presentations available for free : The contents of this thematic dossier present organizational initiatives to be deployed or management practices to be implemented in your companies to promote mental health and well-being at work. The following topics will be explored in the form of reference guides, tools for your managers and videos: disconnection, peer support programs, daily management practices and recognition at work.

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Thematic dossier: New workplace realities: organizational initiatives and management practices that promote mental health

The contents of this thematic dossier present organizational initiatives to be deployed or management practices to be implemented in your companies to promote mental health and well-being at work. The following topics will be explored in the form of reference guides, tools for your managers and videos: disconnection, peer support programs, daily management practices and recognition at work.

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Global-Watch – Fonds de recherche du Québec Fellowships

The Global-Watch – Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ) fellowships aim to reward the high-quality work of doctoral students who joined forces at the start of the pandemic to offer organizations, in the form of Scientific Newsflashes, accessible scientific knowledge and concrete action steps to minimize the effects of the pandemic on workers’ health and well-being.

Our 1st anniversary was celebrated with affiliates!

During the Global-Watch Morning held in Montreal on December 4, which brought together 30 large employers for the presentation of the workplace bullying toolkit and the second phase of development of the docket on strategy measurement indicators for workplace health and well-being, we celebrated Global-Watch’s first anniversary.

Second edition of the bi-annual Global-Watch Meetings in Paris : workplace harassment and indicators of health and well-being at work

This second Global-Watch Meetings event, held at the Orange offices in Paris, brought together representatives of French and Canadian companies. The standardization of indicators on the global level and the preserving of the uniqueness of each country’s local context contributed to the success of initiatives in workplace health and well-being.

GLOBAL-WATCH SUMMER MISSION IN IVORY COAST

The president and founder of Global-Watch, Marie-Claude Pelletier, and the director of scientific monitoring and professor France St-Hilaire, Director of Équipe sur les organisations en santé (ÉOS) at the Université de Sherbrooke, undertook a summer mission in Ivory Coast to give presentations on workplace health and well-being during an international event, to meet workplace health and well-being representatives from Orange and to discuss possible collaborations between Ivory Coast and Québec on issues related to workplace health and well-being.

Pr. Kevin Kelloway : impact of leadership on the workplace health and well-being

Global-Watch a eu le privilège de recevoir le Pr. Kevin Kelloway le 29 mai 2018 à Montréal, lors de la 1re édition québécoise de ses Rendez-vous biannuels. Ce prestigieux professeur de la St-Mary’s University, titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada sur la santé psychologique au travail, a présenté ses travaux sur l’incidence du leadership sur une culture positive de santé et bien-être au travail.

Are healthcare programs for Canadian workers worth it?

Sanofi Canada announced the results of the 21st edition of the Sanofi Canada Healthcare Survey on June 14 in Montréal. The survey is broad and detailed. It assesses the health of Canadian workers (“members”) with employer-sponsored healthcare plans and the concerns of companies or employers (“sponsors”) offering healthcare plans to their employees.

Integrate workplace health and well-being one step at a time

The transtheoretical model of the stages of change is based on the premise that not all employees are necessarily at the same stage, and that your tools and programs must take this into account. Global-Watch framework for intervention makes it possible to better understand the systemic dynamics of an organization when it wishes to put in place health and well-being actions.

Global-Watch Meetings: minutes from March 12, 2018

On March 12, a virtual Paris-Montréal meeting was held with Global-Watch affiliates via videoconference.
Thanks to Groupe Orange, CGI and Desjardins for sharing their approach and their lessons learned for the rollout of complex or international strategies and/or workplace health and well-being.

Australian workers ‘grin and bear’ it in silent workplace bullying epidemic

Traditionally, workplace safety campaigns have focused on preventing physical injuries or deaths in agricultural and blue-collar industries, like construction.

Safe Work Australia statistics show that workplace fatalities have dropped, from 259 in 2003 to 182 in 2016.

But experts say the focus needs to also be placed on the growing impact of workplace bullying and sexual harassment.

Retention of older workers: the case of Finland

Global-Watch shares this interesting 13 minute video (in French), produced by le Mag Avenue de l’Europe, presenting examples of Finnish companies integrating older people in employment (55 years and over) both on the philosophical, ergonomic, social, and economic aspects.

How to handle cancer in the workplace

Cancer, unfortunately, touches more and more people today, and therefore more and more employees. The good news is that current treatments allow us to envision a longer life expectancy. But this also means that employees who are sick can sometimes continue to work during their treatment, return to work after their illness, or even take on the role of caregiver. This leads to significant challenges for the workplace.