. Talk about worker shortages during earnings calls dropped sharply in the first quarter of the year, and has continued to fall in the months since. That pattern roughly matches job vacancies in Canada, which peaked in the middle of last year and are now falling, thanks in part to rapid population growth. Jason Kirby takes a closer look in this week’s Decoder.Not long after pandemic lockdowns forced major companies to adapt to working from home, the death of the office seemed near.
And yet, a growing body of data suggests a100 per cent of the time, and a corresponding surge in the number of people who do hybrid work, meaning they split their time between home and office. As Vanmala Subramaniam reports, roughly 24 per cent of workers did their jobs exclusively from home in January 2022, according todata, but by December, 2022, that proportion had declined to 16 per cent. In that period, the proportion of workers with hybrid arrangements rose from 3.6 per cent to 9.