Worth A Look – November 1, 2017

Worth a Look This Week

Forget about golf communities, is the future Agrihoods?
Tanza Loudenback, Business Insider
Millennials are saying “so long” to the country club and “hello” to the farm. Many so-called agrihoods — short for “agricultural neighborhoods” — are cropping up around the US, and they’re aimed at farm-to-table-loving millennials.  Could Canada be next?

Millennials are still company men and women
The Economist
EVERYBODY knows—or at least thinks he knows—that a millennial with one job must be after a new one. Today’s youngsters are thought to have little loyalty towards their employers and to be prone to “job-hop”. Millennials (ie, those born after about 1982) are indeed more likely to switch jobs than their older colleagues. But that is more a result of how old they are than of the era they were born in. In America at least, average job tenures have barely changed in recent decades.

Sexual Harassment of Women is Widespread in Canada
Bruce Anderson, Abacus Data

Earlier today we released new data on the reported incidence of sexual harassment in Canada. There are almost 15 million adult women in Canada and according to our latest survey, almost 8 million of them (53%) have experienced unwanted sexual pressure. The prevalence of this experience is highest among women under 45.