What role should the office play, and can companies create equitable and sustainable work from home (remote work) policies that work for all employees? Rotman's Sarah Kaplan and Carmina Ravanera weigh in on the future of hybrid work for the Executive Summary podcast.

Canadian women face an uncomfortable truth: they generally make less money than their male counterparts. And yet there’s no shortage of financial planning advice focused on how women can manage their personal expenses, invest in their future, and navigate the impact of major life events, including motherhood, that might uniquely affect their career progression. The Globe and Mail invited a group of female leaders to discuss how organizations can help women bridge the gap between personal responsibility for their wallets, and systemic inequity in levels of compensation.

How will the pandemic change the workplace as we know it? What will corporate work environments look like in the future, as we adapt to and move on from the COVID-19 crisis? Sarah Kaplan, author of The 360° Corporation: From Stakeholder Trade-offs to Transformation, and Tracy Keogh, chief human resources officer for HP, joined The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson to discuss at this AtlanticLIVE event.

Sarah Kaplan and Jake Stika from Next Gen Men discuss how organizations that invested in diversity and inclusion before COVID-19 proved far more resilient during the crisis, showing that equity is a core business strategy rather than an optional add-on. The pandemic has exposed deeply gendered impacts, from women bearing disproportionate unpaid labor and domestic violence to men facing identity challenges as traditional roles are disrupted, revealing how systemic inequality shapes outcomes we rarely examine. The crisis presents a rare opportunity to rethink GDP, expand gender-based policy analysis, challenge consumerism, and open up rigid gender norms around caregiving and employment. Both speakers argue that recovery must be built through a gender lens from the start, because the window for meaningful systemic change is open right now.