With respect to total compensation in Canada, current trends indicate that: Multiple Choice Employee benefits will be treated as completely independent from direct compensation. Benefits will form a greater proportion of total compensation offered. Employers will be reducing considerably the amount and type of benefits currently available to employees because they are so costly. Employers have indicated they plan to "hold tight" and neither reduce or increase the amount of indirection compensation offered in the future. Direct compensation will begin to edge out benefits because employees have indicated they need greater security