Susan Maclean

It's more than just a catchy phrase. The steelmaker seems to have valued its employees since it was founded in Hamilton, Ont., in 1912. Along with being the first Canadian company to introduce profit sharing, it now claims to spend more than $15 million a year on staff training.

Vincent Lynch, Toronto-based consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was recently involved in analyzing the Canadian results of the Industry Week Census of Manufacturers survey carried out by PricewaterhouseCoopers and Industry Week magazine.

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Electronic learning or e-learning -- educating employees using Web-enabled materials over the Internet -- is taking off as the training method of choice here in Canada.

After pushing, cajoling and gnashing of teeth by those working to Internet-time, including the Software Human Resource Council (SHRC), two pilot surveys are in varying stages of analysis with Human Resource Development Canada and Statistics Canada, prior to release to the SHRC for general distribution.

Four Saskatchewan school boards teamed up last summer with SaskTel and Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. to create BrainBinder.com, a web-based technology and network computing deployment for grades Kindergarten to 12.

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