Introducing Table Four Business

Andrew Langstone • December 11, 2022

The labour shortage is just starting...

For years we have known that a major demographic change was coming, and we are just now starting to feel the effects.  In Canada, the working-age population has never been older - 1 in 5 people currently in the work force is close to retirement.  There are now 7 million Canadians aged 65 and older, this is both the highest absolute number in history, and the highest as a percentage of the overall population in history.  For the first time ever there are more people in Canada 65 and older than there are 15 and under.  

Meanwhile, there are more than a million job vacancies reported in Canada and it's going to get more acute as a record number of retirements is looming and the demographics of the country don't provide an incoming workforce to fill the gaps.  Expanding immigration will help offset some of the pain, but the number of new workers needed is too high for immigrants to fully absorb. 

For employers, this means two things:
  1. Businesses need to do more with less people, and
  2. Businesses need to retain the talent that they have

Creating an engaged workforce

In the coming years, Canadian businesses will be faced with the incredibly difficult challenge of navigating a labour market that will heavily favour job-seekers and job-jumpers.  In this environment, the businesses that succeed will be those that are successful at creating a culture of employee engagement to attract the seekers and prevent them from jumping elsewhere.


Employee engagement is the degree to which employees invest their cognitive, emotional, and behavioral energies towards positive organizational outcomes.  Businesses with high employee engagement scores are more profitable, have lower overheads, and experience less employee churn as compared to businesses with low engagement. Intuitively this makes sense: engaged employee enjoy their jobs - they work harder, you need fewer of them, and they don't want to leave.


One of the single biggest drivers of increasing job performance is creating a sense of belonging at work.  Fostering informal communication between individual employees has been shown to create social bonds and establish the sense of team and belonging within a workforce.


Introducing Table Four Business

Table Four's mission is to connect people.  We believe that by creating meaningful connections between individuals, we are building happy, productive, and diverse communities.


This is why we are excited to bring Table Four to business!  The concept is deceptively simple: bring your people together for small group meetings once or twice a month where they are able to have a conversation with peers from all corners of the organization.  These meetings break through internal silos, merge demographics, and spark conversations that would otherwise never take place.


The result is a more engaged workforce with higher productivity and more creativity.




We Make it Easy

We know that software implementation can be daunting and that's why we've made Table Four Business simple.  There is no software to install, no passwords to remember, no apps to download on your phone... every interaction with your team is done by email.  With only list of email addresses you can start experiencing the benefits of Table Four Business the same day!


If your business is ready to join the top 15% of companies with a highly engaged workforce, contact our sales team to get started with Table Four Business today!


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