by Sharlene Massie | May 11, 2026 | Industry Insights, Workplace & Career Insights
Oil prices are high, and company profits should be strong. By Alberta standards, this should feel like a boom. However, rising costs for both businesses and everyday life are cutting into what would traditionally fuel rapid expansion and hiring. For many employers and...
by Sharlene Massie | May 1, 2026 | Workplace & Career Insights
For decades, the conversation around workplace health has focused on the obvious: physical safety, hazard prevention, and compliance. And rightly so. At About Staffing, our 30 years of experience conducting hazard assessments and workplace evaluations has shown us...
by Sharlene Massie | Feb 12, 2026 | Workplace & Career Insights
Let’s be honest. Work can feel serious sometimes.Deadlines. Meetings. Messages marked “urgent.” Repeat. So for Valentine’s Day, let’s press pause on all that and remember something simple: love shows up at work more than we think. We just don’t always call it that. At...
by Sharlene Massie | Jan 21, 2026 | Hiring Tips & Trends, Workplace & Career Insights
In today’s business environment, constant change, economic pressure, tight timelines, and heavier workloads are pushing teams to the limit. One of the biggest mistakes organizations make is confusing capacity with capability. At About Staffing in Calgary, serving...
by Sharlene Massie | Jan 7, 2026 | Founder's Thoughts, Workplace & Career Insights
We bid it. We hope. We try hard. We work in chaos, caffeine, and pure emotion. From the job sites to the boardrooms, from steel-toed boots to spreadsheets, we have seen it all in staffing and recruitment. Overtime? Rarely.No time? Usually.Deadlines?...
by Sharlene Massie | Dec 3, 2025 | Workplace & Career Insights
As the year winds down, many of us feel the familiar weight of deadlines, unmet goals, and constant comparisons to others, to our own expectations, and to the news cycle that often highlights inequality and excess. It’s easy to feel disheartened or to question our...
