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Professor of Sociology & Canada Research Chair @ UofT; Studies trends in quality of worklife and how it shapes the sense of self/identity, status, & well-being.

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Joined February 2013
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8 months
My interview this morning on the perception glitch about financial well-being in Canada and the US @iHeartRadio
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8 months
Believing that most others are worse off than they really are is a problem. I show that 27% of Canadians & Americans say they are struggling financially. That's a concern, but 65% of Canadians & 43% of Americans perceive that most others are struggling👉
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8 months
And you thought Americans were in a foul mood about money! My new piece in The Conversation shows how much more pessimistic Canadians are--and how perception glitches I've discovered about work also apply to economic life. 👇via @ConversationCA.
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Canadians have a distorted view of others’ financial well-being compared to their neighbours across the border.
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8 months
My piece in the Globe & Mail finds that most Canadians report high satisfaction with their work. At the same time, we don’t think others are satisfied doing their jobs. People believe a key reason is the amount we complain about work. /via @globeandmail
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As it turns out, most people are wrong about job satisfaction and it might help to acknowledge and challenge our notions about this
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9 months
I've continued to track Canadian workers' perceptions of the state of the economy--finding slight improvement from a year ago, with the share reporting "poor" dipping by 10 percentage points. 👉
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9 months
All the hype that we're in an "age of anti-ambition" is overblown. My latest surveys find that most Canadians still believe in its importance--but slightly less strongly than Americans. 👉
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9 months
It's who you know. What does it take to get ahead? My research finds softening belief in "hard work" and "ambition"--but a rise in "knowing the right people." 👉
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9 months
After years of media messaging about a supposedly new era of "anti-work/anti-ambition," where do things stand? There's been some softening in the importance Americans place on "hard work." 👉
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9 months
I've been tracking how people think and talk about getting ahead. so Harris's "ambition" message caught my attention. In this piece, I ask: Will it resonate? via @ConversationCA.
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Kamala Harris may have her work cut out for her in selling an ‘opportunity economy’ message with less than a month until the U.S. presidential election. But as she often says: Hard work is good work.
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Scott Schieman
10 months
My latest column in the Globe and Mail (with Daniel Hill) tells a story about the nature and consequences of fun at work using quant and qual data from my 2024 Measuring Employment Sentiments and Social Inequality (MESSI) study. @globeandmail
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Having a fun and enjoyable workplace can be fun-damental for businesses with research showing positive outcomes in trust, commitment and employee retention
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11 months
The weird truth about work is we actually like it- my research on perception glitches featured in the Financial Times via @ft.
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11 months
My new column in the Globe and Mail reports on how the money-more scale has tipped. and why that might not be a good thing /via @globeandmail
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63 per cent of Canadians and 58 per cent of Americans disagree with the idea that what they do is more important than the money they earn
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Scott Schieman
1 year
Why would anyone continue to work into their 80s? In my latest Globe & Mail piece, I write that we all get psychosocial rewards from work –that's why some don't want to give it up /via @globeandmail
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A job builds self-understanding, learning, and connecting. For 21-year-olds, 51-year-olds, and 81-year-olds alike
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1 year
Over the past year, the share of Liberal & NDP voters who describe Canada’s economy as “poor” decreased. By contrast, Conservative voters — who already held a much more negative view of the economy in 2023 — soured even further. 👉
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Scott Schieman
1 year
Has Canada become the land of extreme inequality? My new piece with Bruce Liang and Alex Wilson in the Financial Post finds that some believe it more than others:
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1 year
Please do NOT make me watch this debate!
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1 year
Your job is more stressful than mine! A minority of American workers describe their own job as extremely stressful--but the vast majority believe most others experience extreme stress. Find other perception glitches here:
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Scott Schieman
1 year
RT @SPQuarterly: Check out our OnlineFirst article "The Job Satisfaction Paradox: Pluralistic Ignorance and the Myth of the “Unhappy Worker….
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