Dawn Torroba - Group Associate, RBC Group Advantage

Lack of emergency savings or challenges with budgeting creating a pay cheque to pay cheque lifestyle erodes productivity, focus and motivation. Helping your teams understand their spending, create a plan and receive tailored advice is immensely valuable in today's workplace environment -

Canadian workers’ mental health declining in 2025 due to burnout, financial stress: report The majority of Canadian employees (70 per cent) say their productivity has declined due to worsening mental health, according to a new report by Telus Health. The report, which analyzed employee responses from the company’s 2024 and 2025 mental-health indexes, found 40 per cent of workers are liv...

Rewarding employees with valuable education and advice in tandem with supporting their goals helps to improve productivity and lower their stress -

Survey finds 27% of Canadian employees say financial stress impacts productivity Two-thirds (65 per cent) of Canadian employees say they’re stressed about their finances and a quarter (27 per cent) say this stress impacts their productivity at work, according to a new survey by Wealthsimple. The survey, which polled more than 500 employees, found nine in 10 (91 per cent) said ...

Important evolution to help employees with meaningful value and keeping more of what they earn -

So long foosball, hello savings: How work perks are evolving amid the rising cost of living The workplace programs, tools and supports that employees value have changed over the last four years, leading many employers to pause certain office perks, such as table football or fancy coffee bars, to focus on offerings that can make a difference in employees’ everyday lives. “While no one c...