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The Healthy Professional Worker Partnership, an interdisciplinary, multi-university research team led by the University of Ottawa, is exploring factors that contribute to knowledge workers taking leaves from work for mental health issues (their own or a family member’s) and to explore tools that support their successful return to work. This study includes: academia, accounting, dentistry, medicine, midwifery nursing and teaching professions. The team is particularly interested in the role that gender has on these experiences. There will also be some questions about how COVID-19 has impacted these experiences. 

If you are interested in taking part in this study, please follow this link to the online survey: https://bit.ly/3nk2gBf. The survey will take about 15-20 minutes to complete. 

If you would prefer to participate in an interview, please contact the study project coordinator, Audrey Kruisselbrink, at HPW@uottawa.ca. The interview will take 40-60 minutes for which there will be a $20 honorarium.

Trust is the glue that holds relationships together. A business’ relationships with its stakeholders, such as investors, customers, communities and society are crucial to its success, sometimes even its survival. Trust is built over a period of time, and if sustained, can lead to strong relationships.  If violated, however, the relationship can be destroyed immediately, and perhaps fatally. These are challenging times for trust, where social media has led to mis-information and outright lies masquerading as truth. More and more, truth stays elusive, and trust suffers as a result.

We find ourselves in an uncertain world. We don’t know how long the pandemic will last nor how it will end – if it does. We don’t know what the world at the other end will look like. It is clear that some of the changes that have taken place, such as the location of the workplace, will survive in some form. Digital orders, home deliveries, all that will likely survive at least partially, as people get used to the convenience.