{"id":17975,"date":"2025-06-04T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fibrocanada.ca\/?p=17975"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:30:50","slug":"fact-sheet-supporting-employees-with-fibromyalgia-a-guide-for-canadian-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/fact-sheet-supporting-employees-with-fibromyalgia-a-guide-for-canadian-employers","title":{"rendered":"Fact Sheet &#8211; Supporting Employees with Fibromyalgia: A Guide for Canadian Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\">You can download this Fact Sheet for employers below<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition that causes widespread pain, fatigue, and cognitive difficulties (often called \"fibro fog\"). Symptoms vary from person to person and can fluctuate in severity. While invisible, fibromyalgia can impact an employee\u2019s ability to perform certain tasks.<br>Many employees with fibromyalgia are high-performing and hardworking but may experience \"flare-ups\"\u2014periods when pain and fatigue significantly impact their ability to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Employees with fibromyalgia may need accommodations occasionally, long term, or on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can listen to the Enhanced Audio version here<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Employers-Guide-for-Supporting-Employees-with-Fibromyalgia-.m4a\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-FAC-Sheet-A-Guide-for-Employers-EN.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"width:800px;\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"both\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">6-FAC-Sheet-A-Guide-for-Employers-EN<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<p><div class=\"wp-block-button\">\n<a  data-e-Disable-Page-Transition=\"true\" class=\"dlm-download-link dlm-download-default wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/download\/18685\/?tmstv=1784942969\" rel=\"nofollow\" id=\"download-link-18685\" data-redirect=\"false\" >\n\tFact Sheet - Employers (EN)\t(544 downloads\t)\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n\n\n<p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers looking for ideas to accommodate their team members with fibromyalgia can download this helpful guide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,47,287],"tags":[83,84],"class_list":["post-17975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-highlights","category-fact-sheet","category-sociable","tag-fact-sheet","tag-medications","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17975"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24074,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17975\/revisions\/24074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fibrocanada.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}