Human Resources Subscriptions

Get the best out of your most valuable resource: Your people.

Employee–employer relationships are changing. An inFact Human Resources subscription helps you build data-driven strategies with a view of the economic and human resources trends impacting Canadian workforces. From essential HR metrics to work wellness trends and beyond, our actionable HR research helps you prepare your organization for the workforce of today and tomorrow.

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Build a competitive edge with critical intelligence.

Companies are under pressure to make smart human resources decisions in a competitive hiring landscape. Confidently build and deploy data-driven strategies based on Canadian organizational benchmarks and expert analysis. We prepare you and your organization for the workforce of today and tomorrow.

Transform your HR planning into a strategic advantage and stay ahead of future disruptions.

Human Resources Subscription Benefits

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Build your benefits strategy based on Canadian trends and benchmarks.

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Access essential HR metrics, updated quarterly.

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Refine your workplace health and wellness strategy based on the latest opportunities.

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Review HR trends, best practices, and case studies in easily digestible formats.

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Use metropolitan hiring trends to guide your own positioning.

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Prepare for bargaining and understand the top priorities with up-to-date labour insights.

Learn more about how an inFact Human Resources subscription can help support your organization.

I can always count on The Conference Board of Canada to give me the most up-to-date and accurate salary planning data. Year after year, I eagerly await this trusted publication to plan my company’s salary range adjustments and merit budget.

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Subscription Packages

Choose from one of our three Human Resources subscriptions and stay up-to-date with unbiased, data-driven research on the latest topics impacting your workforce.

Our Benefits Benchmarking reports, released once every three years, helps businesses develop and fine-tune their team management practices through comparison with other organizations in similar regions or industries. Divided into four parts—inclusive benefit offerings, employer-sponsored benefit plans, flexible work arrangements, and mental health and wellness benefits—our reports provide timely insights into Canadian organizations’ benefit offerings.


How this series can help you:

  • Align your benefits packages with industry trends to balance talent investments while remaining competitive.
  • Use insights into flexible work arrangements to inform your internal strategies.
  • Stay informed about industry practices and benchmarks to proactively adapt and optimize your team management practices.

The Canadian Hiring Index, created by The Conference Board of Canada in partnership with Vicinity Jobs, is a monthly series produced from job postings data that equips HR professionals with the information they need to effectively predict and navigate candidate availability challenges. It delivers crucial insights into labour demand across regions and industries, with a focused Labour Tightness Indicator at both national and provincial levels.


How this series can help you:

  • Build a responsive offer strategy based on the current hiring environment.
  • Narrow in on job vacancy insights by job, region, and sector.
  • Balance your overall talent acquisition budget to attract talent in a competitive hiring environment.

This annual report provides a reliable forecast for compensation and HR professionals nationwide, empowering them to secure talent in today’s competitive marketplace. Access in-depth analysis and insights on topics such as legislative shifts, pay equity, budgeting and forecasting, performance management, compliance, and more.


How this series can help you:

  • Explore insights on pay equity and performance management and benchmark your organization against what others have done to create a positive work environment.
  • Explore industry functions and the specific roles that apply to you. Benchmark against similar organizations and pinpoint areas for improvement.
  • Use our budget insights to allocate resources effectively and ensure that salaries, bonuses, and other benefits align with your financial goals.

This series gathers data from a The Conference Board of Canada survey, sent to over 1,000 C-level executives and CEOs, aimed at understanding the most pressing issues facing Canada’s top business leaders. The insights derived from this data help to guide leaders through hot-button issues, offering advice on preparing for and responding to financial crises, technological revolutions, labour shortages, pandemics, changing work expectations, and more.


How this series can help you:

  • Leverage insights into C-suite perspectives on hot-button issues to inform strategic workforce planning.
  • Learn about the major crises impacting organizations and strategies for moving forward.
  • Stay informed about industry trends, such as flexible work arrangements, to proactively adapt HR policies and practices.

Make sure your HR strategies remain responsive to the dynamic business landscape . Our quarterly survey, encompassing over 200 organizations across Canada, yields timely HR benchmarking data for four essential metrics: turnover rates for both unionized and non-unionized employees, retirement rates, absenteeism rates, and job vacancy rates.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand the current business environment and where you stand within it.
  • Validate your strategy against up-to-date metrics.
  • Stay responsive in the day-to-day execution of your HR strategy.

This series explores trending topics in human resources using spotlight reports and case studies. Spotlight reports are short, easily digestible pieces that examine HR best practices, including flexible work arrangements, inclusive practices, workplace mental health supports, and ways to support retirement-age workers. Case studies will highlight Canadian organizations that have adopted these best practices and examine how, in doing so, they have improved their workplace’s diversity, wellbeing, and productivity.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand emerging HR practices and their impact on business strategy.
  • Bring a fresh perspective to your workplace wellness strategy and use our case studies to reflect on the real impact of HR trends.
  • Benchmark your organization’s HR practices against the best practices highlighted in the reports.

Our annual Labour Relations Outlook delivers insights into the labour market, equipping market leaders, managers, and policy-makers with a clear understanding of the current negotiating landscape and its defining issues. These reports can be used to support collective bargaining, union organizing, labour-law compliance, workforce planning, and reputation management.


How this series can help you:

  • Use expert insights to develop your negotiation strategy.
  • Leverage insights to support your positions, propose informed solutions, and contribute to more successful negotiations.
  • Enable proactive planning and responses to potential organizing efforts.

Tailor your HR strategies to attract, retain, and effectively manage talent based on the economic and business landscape of metropolitan areas. Our Major City Insights reports provide five-year forecasts for 13 distinct Canadian metropolitan areas, highlighting various key findings about their economies and employment markets.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand the unique dynamics of major cities to tailor your talent acquisition strategies.
  • Learn how higher interest rates and inflation impact households and businesses in specific cities, and tailor compensation and benefits packages to align with these conditions.
  • Use insights into the GDP growth of specific cities to anticipate changes in job availability, demand for specific skills, and overall employment trends.

Our Benefits Benchmarking reports, released once every three years, helps businesses develop and fine-tune their team management practices through comparison with other organizations in similar regions or industries. Divided into four parts—inclusive benefit offerings, employer-sponsored benefit plans, flexible work arrangements, and mental health and wellness benefits—our reports provide timely insights into Canadian organizations’ benefit offerings.


How this series can help you:

  • Align your benefits packages with industry trends to balance talent investments while remaining competitive.
  • Use insights into flexible work arrangements to inform your internal strategies.
  • Stay informed about industry practices and benchmarks to proactively adapt and optimize your team management practices.

This annual report provides a reliable forecast for compensation and HR professionals nationwide, empowering them to secure talent in today’s competitive marketplace. Access in-depth analysis and insights on topics such as legislative shifts, pay equity, budgeting and forecasting, performance management, compliance, and more.


How this series can help you:

  • Explore insights on pay equity and performance management and benchmark your organization against what others have done to create a positive work environment.
  • Explore industry functions and the specific roles that apply to you. Benchmark against similar organizations and pinpoint areas for improvement.
  • Use our budget insights to allocate resources effectively and ensure that salaries, bonuses, and other benefits align with your financial goals.

Our annual Labour Relations Outlook delivers insights into the labour market, equipping market leaders, managers, and policy-makers with a clear understanding of the current negotiating landscape and its defining issues. These reports can be used to support collective bargaining, union organizing, labour-law compliance, workforce planning, and reputation management.


How this series can help you:

  • Use expert insights to develop your negotiation strategy.
  • Leverage insights to support your positions, propose informed solutions, and contribute to more successful negotiations.
  • Enable proactive planning and responses to potential organizing efforts.

This series gathers data from a The Conference Board of Canada survey, sent to over 1,000 C-level executives and CEOs, aimed at understanding the most pressing issues facing Canada’s top business leaders. The insights derived from this data help to guide leaders through hot-button issues, offering advice on preparing for and responding to financial crises, technological revolutions, labour shortages, pandemics, changing work expectations, and more.


How this series can help you:

  • Leverage insights into C-suite perspectives on hot-button issues to inform strategic workforce planning.
  • Learn about the major crises impacting organizations and strategies for moving forward.
  • Stay informed about industry trends, such as flexible work arrangements, to proactively adapt HR policies and practices.

Make sure your HR strategies remain responsive to the dynamic business landscape . Our quarterly survey, encompassing over 200 organizations across Canada, yields timely HR benchmarking data for four essential metrics: turnover rates for both unionized and non-unionized employees, retirement rates, absenteeism rates, and job vacancy rates.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand the current business environment and where you stand within it.
  • Validate your strategy against up-to-date metrics.
  • Stay responsive in the day-to-day execution of your HR strategy.

This series explores trending topics in human resources using spotlight reports and case studies. Spotlight reports are short, easily digestible pieces that examine HR best practices, including flexible work arrangements, inclusive practices, workplace mental health supports, and ways to support retirement-age workers. Case studies will highlight Canadian organizations that have adopted these best practices and examine how, in doing so, they have improved their workplace’s diversity, wellbeing, and productivity.


How this series can help you:

  • Understand emerging HR practices and their impact on business strategy.
  • Bring a fresh perspective to your workplace wellness strategy and use our case studies to reflect on the real impact of HR trends.
  • Benchmark your organization’s HR practices against the best practices highlighted in the reports.

Our annual Labour Relations Outlook delivers insights into the labour market, equipping market leaders, managers, and policy-makers with a clear understanding of the current negotiating landscape and its defining issues. These reports can be used to support collective bargaining, union organizing, labour-law compliance, workforce planning, and reputation management.


How this series can help you:

  • Use expert insights to develop your negotiation strategy.
  • Leverage insights to support your positions, propose informed solutions, and contribute to more successful negotiations.
  • Enable proactive planning and responses to potential organizing efforts.

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