If we include the self-employed as ‘workers’, fully 98% of Canada’s private sector firms have less than 50 employees. Zero point one percent of firms have 500 employees or more. These large firms account for a little les than a third of private sector employment. They are large, hierarchical organizations. Clearly the senior managers of … Read more
My colleague Randolph does an admirable job of narrating the content for most of these blog posts. Randolph doesn’t really exist. But I have attached a photograph of him to help with the illusion. You could see him as an ‘imaginary friend’ that I met somewhere in the metaverse – which doesn’t exist either (except … Read more
Many years ago, I was chatting with a neighbour at my parent’s home on beautiful Saturna Island, located between Vancouver and Victoria on British Columbia’s idyllic West Coast. She asked me what I did for a living, and I told her I was a tax accountant. She assumed I meant personal tax returns, so I … Read more
“Among Canadians, the rate of self-employment—that is, the number of self-employed workers as a share of total employment—has been relatively stable, hovering around 15% over the last decade. However, when we focus on the core-age group (those aged 40 and older), interesting patterns emerge: Overall Self-Employment Rate:In 2018, approximately 2.9 million Canadians were self-employed, up … Read more
Five short decades ago, the economic landscape in Canada and the world was vastly different. Five decades before that farming was the dominant occupation, and Canada was primarily rural. In this overview, we’ll look at the accounting occupation in Canada and how it has changed during the last five decades and try and understand some … Read more
So, How Big is Small?Everybody seems to have a different definition the Globe’s Report on Small Business gets delivered to my inbox While the reports are often interesting, the businesses covered aren’t usually small. One of the latest reports featured MINDBRIDGE ANALYTICS INC. They’re an AI[1] ‘startup’ with between 130 and 201 employees, depending on … Read more