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Understanding change.
Rethinking how work gets done.

The Canadian Forum on Workplace Innovation brings together research, practitioner experience and applied innovation around the forces changing work in Canada.

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Workforce change, workplace impact

Canada's workforce is changing, and workplaces are changing with it.

Labour-market pressures, technology, changing skills needs and evolving job demands are influencing how work is organized, performed and supported. The challenge is turning those broader shifts into practical decisions about work design, safety, productivity and people.

Broader shifts

Labour-market pressures
Technology
Changing skills needs
Evolving job demands

Workplace decisions

Work design
Safety
Productivity
People

Broader shifts

Labour-market pressures
Technology
Changing skills needs
Evolving job demands

Workplace decisions

Work design
Safety
Productivity
People

Connecting broad workforce change with the practical choices organizations make about work.

How the Forum works

From evidence to shared learning to practical testing.

The Forum connects evidence, practitioner experience and practical testing so that workforce and workplace questions can move from understanding to useful action.

Understand

Evidence & Insights

Use research and public data to make the workplace question clearer.

Forum Insight · July 2026

AI at Work

Evidence scan

Canadian businesses using AI

19.2%Q2 2026

Adoption is accelerating, but adoption alone does not show whether work or productivity improved.

2024

6.1%

2025

12.2%

2026

19.2%

Practical interpretation

The harder question is what organizations change around the technology: task choice, workflow, skills, management and measurement.

Source: Statistics Canada, business AI adoption measures, Q2 2024–Q2 2026.

Convene

Communities & Collaboration

Bring evidence and practitioner experience together around a shared problem.

Illustrative working session

Technology & work design

Community format

Shared question

What organizational capabilities are needed to adopt AI and workplace technology effectively?

Perspectives in the room

Employers

Practitioners

Public sector

Researchers

Working agenda

What does the evidence say?
What are organizations seeing in practice?
Where are the implementation gaps?

Possible outputs

Evidence briefShared learningPractical toolsPilot opportunity

Illustrative format only — not an active Community or meeting record.

Apply

Applied Innovation

Take a defined question into a real workplace and learn from implementation.

Current pilot opportunity

Movement insight for better-designed work

In development

Workplace question

Where are physically demanding tasks creating unnecessary movement, risk or friction in the way work is done?

Applied approach

Vergo-supported movement analysis combined with workplace review and operational context.

Define

Observe

Review

Learn

Forum-designed and coordinated pilot

Workplace review of findings

Practical recommendations

Documented implementation learning

Pilot structure shown here does not present participant results or outcomes.

Our focus

Four lenses on the changing workplace.

The Forum looks across workforce pressures, people, work design and technology rather than treating them as separate conversations.

Workforce & Labour-Market Change

Demographics, skills, labour shortages and changing occupations.

Workplace Safety & Human Performance

Safer ways of working, injury prevention and human performance.

Productivity & Work Design

How jobs, processes and work can be designed to improve performance.

Technology & the Future of Work

How emerging technologies are reshaping jobs, skills and the experience of work.

Research & publications

Latest research and practical insights

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Flagship Report2026

The Changing Canadian Workplace

From workforce pressure to workplace adaptation

Canada’s workforce challenge is no longer only about finding people. It is increasingly about how organizations use skills, technology and work design to make better use of the capacity they have.

22 pages · Web report + PDF · Canadian workforce and workplace evidence