Human Resources Director Canada – The employee caregiving crunch is already in your workforce data 

Caregiving is already reshaping Canadian workplaces, showing up in attendance records, performance reviews, and exit interviews. What many employers have yet to recognize is that the data is already there. They just don’t know how to read it. 

That’s the message Krista Skalde, Operating Partner and Chief Talent Officer at Inovia Capital in Toronto, will bring to HRFest Canada 2026 on Nov. 10 and 11, where she joins a panel for a session titled “The Caregiving Crunch: The Quiet Workforce Crisis Hitting Canadian Employers.”  

The scale of the issue is significant. A national survey by the Canadian Centre for Caregiving Excellence, Caring in Canada 2026, found that almost six in 10 caregiving Canadians are working and also providing care, averaging 5.1 hours of caregiving per day on top of their paid work – the equivalent of 36 extra hours every week.