Canadian workers are confident, with more than half expecting better employment conditions and pay increases this year.
Randstad’s quarterly Workmonitor study, conducted in some 50 countries including Canada, shows that 67% of Canadians think their employment conditions will improve in 2011. 69% are also hoping for an increase, and about half expect a promotion, making Canada the third-most optimistic country behind China and India.
Canadian workers appear to have good reasons for their optimism. Despite the crisis, 58% said that their primary employment conditions had improved over the past year, and 49% said their benefits were better, placing them ahead of American and Australian workers. In addition, 80% of Canadians said their company was thriving, vs. 70% of Americans and 76% of Australians.
Almost half of Canadian workers said their employer had given out a year-end gift, as usual, and 43% also expected to get one in 2011. And finally, 83% of Canadian workers said they had succeeded in balancing their work and private lives, and fully 80% expected this balance to get even better in 2011.