8 Things you need to think about before hiring internationally
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Expanding your team into new markets means adding people on the ground with the right mix of experience and knowledge. But hiring the right people where you need them comes with its own set of challenges — from complying with local employment laws to implementing international payroll and benefits.
31 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News As the country marches ever closer to Oct. 17, 2018, the date that recreational marijuana use will become legal for Canadians, SannTek, a Velocity company, specializing in the field of nanotechnology is… Read more 27 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News Backpacker College, a startup launched in Waterloo’s Accelerator Centre that connects those with a lust for travel with quality, inexpensive accommodation – mostly in university residences. Travellers… Read more 24 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News A new Waterloo Region tech company called RootSecure has emerged from the $2-million sale last week of the assets of RootCellar Technologies to Vancouver-based Uniserve. RootCellar was a managed service… Read more 23 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Featured, News Communitech News sat down and chatted with Sam Pasupalak, former Maluuba CEO. Maluuba, a natural language and AI startup, was bought by Microsoft for what is believed to be about CDN$200 million and Pasupalak… Read more 19 July 2018 | By Melanie Baker in: M-Theory, Opinion When hiring for some positions, ads have expectations for the new hire’s emotional labour as much as their physical or mental labour. This is true for customer service roles, providing people with a positive… Read more 18 July 2018 | By Chris Willsher in: Data driven innovation Miovision, the University of Waterloo and ODX came together to address the following problem and research a solution. Road vehicles are a significant source of pollution in Canada, accounting for about… Read more 18 July 2018 | By Chris Willsher in: Data driven innovation Data can play a role in improving public health. According to the Health Status of Canadians report in 2016, only 2 out of 10 Canadian adults met the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines. Many different… Read more 18 July 2018 | By Craig Daniels in: Opinion, View from the 'Loo Is IoT, more specifically smart cities the next big technological 'thing'? Many cities are starting to implement 'smarter' technologies into their cities. City of Kitchener late last November opened its… Read more 17 July 2018 | By Communitech Data Team in: Data driven innovation As part of the 2016 Ventures cohort, Ecopia Tech has brought expertise and open data to their project which has opened doors to new data sets and levels of insight. Ecopia is an industry leading AI company… Read more 11 July 2018 | By Member News in: Member news DigitalEd, the Maplesoft spin-off company formed to bring enhanced focus to online education for science, technology, engineering and mathematics subjects, has begun operations as a separate corporation.… Read more
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The startup that makes globetrotting more affordable
$2-million asset sale leads to launch of new startup RootSecure
Sam Pasupalak and the next big mountain
M-Theory: The value, and cost, of emotional labour
Miovision and University of Waterloo team up on vehicle emissions
Open Data Use Case: Using data to improve public health
View from the 'Loo: Giving shape to the smart city
Ecopia reaches new levels of insight with support from ODX
Maplesoft spinoff DigitalEd marks its inauguration with updates to full product suite