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Urbanization makes it more expensive to live in large cities, making it harder to attract talent into the organizations

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We are seeing the trend in real time as Vancouver eliminates plastic bags, cutlery and straws. It is happening quickly due to regulations and has positive impacts on organizations meeting waste management and recycling goals.

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Gender diversification in the workforce has become a fundamental principal

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Workplace need to provide healthy environment to staff such as standing desks are now a norm, walking meeting, budget allocation for staff with health issues (ergonomic chairs), gym membership, office space dedicated for yoga.

Work Cafeteria has many healthy options such as salad dispenser, gluten free.

Work benefits include health counseling.

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Adding any new software that asks for any automation that tracks your input is met with resistance

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With the trend in connecting the port of Vancouver is launching connect plus to gather data across the transportation supply chain to improve performance.

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There is a fear of using technology because people are afraid that they will take everything down

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Moving away from paper forms of ID toward digital. More secure than traditional forms of ID verification. Protecting one's identity.

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Organizations are closely impacted by changing political landscape. Example of outsourcing before pandemic and local control after pandemic

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People resist acknowledging the gender identity because there is a fear of making mostakes and being offensive. There a fear of being left out if we are not inclusive

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Equity & inclusion in education- disabilities vs. different abilities. Cultural collectivism (eastern, First Nations, etc)

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Clothes becoming more and more gender neutral, for example Uniglow.

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Expanded targetable market and business opportunities that resulted in higher growth. Influx of international students for education. Social challenges balancing local education vs international student education.

Expanded labour sources thru outsourcing for skill sets that you might not find locally.

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Sustainable, greener lifestyles & environment (Telus rooftop). Convenient access to services (e.g., food) & stakeholders (e.g., location near/in financial district).

Creative, open spaces for collaboration (no boring cubicles).

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Increasing importance of pronoun declaration to challenge the assumptive nature of cis-gender pronouns

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Organizations can benefit from remote work, downside is time management and lack of physical collaboration

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Greater acceptance - deferring retirement

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There is a dichotomy of people wanting to wfh while the executives enforcing back to work ideologies.

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Increasing emphasis on knowledge and education has created barriers to entry for some people that lack access to education for socioeconomic reasons.

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Mental health challenges (especially kids) are growing due to social media platforms. Good and bad information is readily available to be distributed, including fake news - double edged sword. False sense of urgency within the staff due to info is so real time.

Buyers have all the information while sales is more about helping instead of person holding knowledge.

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Employee Education- employees are empowered through self-service online learning platforms to promote lifelong learning (i.e., Udemy, khanacademy)

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Need to upgrade servers & focus on data security. Cost & constant evolution. Mandatory training on cyber-security.

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Organizations making or integrating alternative transportation. This can include incentives for participating. This can include transit, car pooling, lime scooters, shared riding, Turo, EVO, bike shares, shared ownerships (Modo) etc.

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Technology: Shift from academic based credibility to technical knowledge and skills.

Technical Skills: Specializations are becoming more readily available through online training platforms.

Big Data: Organizations have shifted to data driven decisions.

Access to knowledge is readily available in the digital age.

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Keeping up with latest trends, global teams & alliances with other countries/places to share info, working in collaboration. Increased competition/be wary of outsourcing.

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When trying to attract talent, organizations need to provide a health package to differentiate them selves from other organizations

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Being able to connect with like minded people and groups globally over various channels (social media, apps). Moving away from main stream media such as news channels

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SFU GP36 Policy addresses controversial events on campus. The volume of requests being processed through the policy has gone from 10 a year, to 10 a week. The increased frequency is due to global economic unrest and the hypervigilance of the Security Risk Services team.

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Normalizing mental health - significant shift away from denial of mental health as important.

Influence within our organizations: More focus on mental health supports, work-life balance, WFH schedule, EAP, etc.

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This has positive impacts by keeping knowledge in organizations and can enable transitions. In some cases however, declining health as people age can lead to increasing sick days and absence from work.

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Head Office Locations: when creating a new corporate office, employee postal codes were consulted to have a head office be central to staff and public transit.

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continuous learning is supported by the business, whether external or internal cross training.

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The global warming impacting food security globally. Sustainability is crucial element of tackling this concern. 

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The global warming impacting food security globally. Sustainability is crucial element of tackling this concern. 

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Transportation: metrics and data to drive autonomous transportation initiatives, traffic controlling mechanisms, and population capacity planning

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People tend to relax with security protocols at home, i.e leave computers unlocked, family members hear confidential information

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How can transit better connect with new mobility to improve first-mile-last-mile connections? We often talk about mobility as a service in people movement

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Entrepreneurs or solopreneurs can individually start a company and grow it on their own and leverage technologies to gain efficiencies.

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New ways of commuting using e-bikes or scooters will change the congestion on roads and will challenge public transit

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Government: ongoing knowledge-building (PD) built into learning plans (select from a list of topics)

Cleantech: R&D, ongoing learning and to be the 1st patent solutions.

Education: digital literacy, continuous learning

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Organizations often hold a great deal of customer data from credit card details to purchasing patterns and locations. It is becoming more and more important to protect that data.

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This is a consistent theme in sustainability conversations, particularly as it relates to resilience and risk management

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Knowledge mobilization and access to information as a common good rather than housed in exclusive spaces

Embracing creativity and different ways of knowing, particularly from Indigenous Knowledge Keepers

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The advent of collaborative technologies (i.e., Zoom, Teams, Jira, Figma), has greatly reduced the needs for corporate travel and the size of corporate offices. This resulted in higher employee connectivity.

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Workplaces -- values people with experience and wisdom (become mentors).

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Uber, transit, delivery, bikes, pedestrians, cars all need access to curb space. How can we better design streets for access to this prime space?

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Baby boomer generation is not adopting technology and there is turn over in middle management who will bring in technology changes. That’s perfect

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Intentionally going grey.

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Sharing of information is in real time, and it changes behaviour patterns around accessing and leveraging information

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Teacher training in land based education, sustainability. Access to ESG funds. Commitment to investing money in organizations making an impact to society, and the environment. Digitalization to reducing waste

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Organizations can be attacked from

Anywhere at any time. And will therefore have to invest heavily in security measures

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Artists/musicians expected to produce content that people consume for free or next to no cost.

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Post-retirement benefits including access to education, continued support and health care, opportunities for post-retirement additional career.

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As gender becomes more flexible people are becoming increasingly tolerant of each other overall leading to less discrimination and harassment.

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Gadgets and technology have added flexibility into how people can work remotely but at the same time it has created silos in the organisation as well. People prefer doing their own things and be done with it, individual choices and needs have become the priority over the overall wellness.

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Movement to centralized offices and not having rural locations as people adapt to technology and don’t require as much face to face communication.

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Integration: seamless integration of data in traditionally disparate systems and the use data and analytics to build large data models.

Cybersecurity: connectivity increases risk and requires compliance and governance, competencies in this discipline, and adoption/awareness and training.

Connectivity: from in-person to on-line preference and personalized services.

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Ability to have knowledge and sources at your finger tips comparatively to reliance on hard copy materials such as trade magazines

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End to end visibility and real time information aid decision making.

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End to end visibility and real time information aid decision making.

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You can be available during core hours. But dont have to be confined to a specific timeset

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One hospital in a growing municipality creates backlogs and bottlenecks. Infrastructure is not scaling alongside population growth.

The rising cost of living in urban centers like Vancouver has impacted where organizations can fill talent, the downstream impact to an RMC is less revenue on real estate transactions

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Although net positive for innovation in research and development individualization presents challenges when opinions differ to achieve an objective. Especially when opinions differ in two levels of hierarchy where insisting from a superior to a subordinate can be misconstrued as harassment.

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Employees are empowered to pick the tasks that are most interesting to them and accomplish them through sprint planning meetings.

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Creative sector can play a major role in making our cities beautiful, happy, connected places.

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Potential for flexible schedules & work-life balance. Sabbaticals/leaves. Better meet needs of employees (e.g., family obligations). Work brings purpose (not just working for work).

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Gen x and later have a different priority for work lofe balance which affects organization culture

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The ability to choose where we work from is transforming people’s relationships with work. People can opt to work in environments that are pleasing or successful for them or that better facilitate work/life balance.

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Cybersecurity

As government organizations or partners of government agencies, data security and privacy are key areas of concern, with investment focused on training and data ethics. At the same time, data provides detailed personal information, thus conversations about how we protect the consumer whether it’s deciding how we use TikTok or gather data from customer interface with products.

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Creating personalized learning experiences

Enhanced collaboration

Prioritization of self care and mindfulness

In some ways reinforces neo-colonial ideals and a modern form of centring colonial systems

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Leveraging capabilities to find efficiencies and indemnify patterns and trends in repeatable processes to become more interconnected between offices.

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Development & adoption of flexible learning models and microcredential programs at postsecondary institutions

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If you lean too far into data driven decisions you lose creativity and innovation.

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Focus on projects that matter to you. More opportunities for diverse individuals (e.g., Starbucks employees). No uniforms or uniformity (e.g., unicorn hair).

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In the recycling world, consumers have a tendency for "wish-cycling" in the sense that they are unsure if something is recyclable, so they will throw it in the recycling without verification. This typically causes additional waste in the recycling streams and possible cross-contamination requiring disposal.

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Companies need to find ways to provide career growth plans and personal development opportunities, including allocating funds to provide outside education opportunities

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Organizations needing to provide more mat/pat leave coverage because a child is raised by parents only, whereas many Asians countries still have a family community/village.

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Knowledge is available through many platforms  and AI plays a huge role providing knowledge to everyone. 

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Knowledge is available through many platforms  and AI plays a huge role providing knowledge to everyone. 

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WFH, Collaborative teams/beyond silos, changing to attract a younger workforce by shifting from extrinsic motivation to intrinsic motivations for work

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Planning to never retire by choice is becoming common. Where people plan to start a career in an industry they have always wanted to but were unable to due to financial stability earlier in their career. There are also those that miss their work life and return to their industry in a reduced or consulting capacity. 

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Planning to never retire by choice is becoming common. Where people plan to start a career in an industry they have always wanted to but were unable to due to financial stability earlier in their career. There are also those that miss their work life and return to their industry in a reduced or consulting capacity. 

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Attracting talent by giving choices of work hours and the flexibility to work accordingly to your work schedule promoting health and well-being.

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Technology has enabled global communication that are seamless and effectively free which has the impact of working anywhere and enhances the ease of which we collaborate with teams.

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This impacts and informs everything I do related to sustainability and climate justice

Decarbonization in particular, is an area of tension because technological improvements especially around safety, are not often designed with sustainability in mind

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Hospitals are creating platforms between health authorities to communicate patient information confidentually and effectively.

For a service sector business, networking and social connections are critical element in the sale process, especially when the industry is an oligarchy.

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Urban organizations are looking to indigenous traditions to transform their spaces into places where healing and connections can take place.

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Mental health is healthcare. De-stigmatize mental health and addiction in workplaces

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Baby boomers are slow to adapt to technology that has change too rapidly around them. They don’t want to retire but at the same time don’t want to change either. If you look at heads of the powerful countries (presidents/pms) like the US, India and China, they are all above 65.

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Because we are becoming global we are making ourselves more prone to cyber attacks.

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Increased compliance to regulations.

Now having recycling bins in the office.

Less printing ("don't print email signatures")

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Introducing roles such as knowledge manager to curate knowledge of the organization for the organization.

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Customizations: changes to business technology and processes for each unit or individual positions within departments.

Technical debt: solutions tailored to individuals place burden and complexity in IT and other support units.

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Constant connectivity has degraded the boundaries between work and life. The ready access to our work applications through our mobile devices has worn away at the boundaries between working hours and family life.

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Blockbuster alliances between conglomerate companies reduces competition and creates a totalitarian culture limiting choices.

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Sponsored education, integrating continuous education within teams, expectation of continuous education for team members.

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Living expenses are becoming increasingly expensive, which impacts organizations compensation levels.

Orgs working fully remote has more barriers to go back to an office due to unaffordability in real estate.

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Penalty for not looking at carbon footprint

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Penalty for not looking at carbon footprint

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Banks have penalized companies for not meeting esg requirement leading to higher interest rate for companies with poor performance.

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Cultural sensitivity, and expanding on ethics and MAID services in the health care industry.

We celebrate empowerment and creativity, however, are bound by corporate structures and restrictions to thinking "too much" outside the box

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The global trend to move low-skill and repetitive work to offshore locations.

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SFU’s mountain campus in Burnaby offers easy mobility access to Evo cars and e-bikes to improve the mobility of students and staff across campus and off the mountain to improve an otherwise isolated experience.

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Modified city of work -- If based in a particular city (e.g., TO) and visiting family in anther (e.g, Vancouver), then can work 3 weeks there. Bike-to-work week in the summer.

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HR and hiring practices to be mindful and inclusive, changing frameworks. More than intentions, but a review of systems. Benefits, flexibility and expectations.

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Much resistance around gender identity and equality and depending on experience and other factors, it can be challenging to create safe spaces within a culture that respects new ways of being.