An international Boston Consulting Group (BCG) survey on employee sentiment reveals that productivity can be maintained surprisingly well in a virtual or hybrid work setting, according to a new BCG article, What 12,000 Employees Have to Say About the Future of Remote Work. The survey, conducted in the US, Germany, and India, also shows that there […]Continue reading

Lots of businesses have lost employees and faced a need to scale down as a result of the events of 2020. Indeed, our July report on ‘LinkedIn to Slash 960 Jobs Worldwide as Coronavirus Battered Recruitment Industry’ spoke to this problem in two ways. First, LinkedIn has become a prominent example of a major company forced to […]Continue reading

In New Zealand, employment-related sexual harassment is governed by the Employment Relations Act 2000 (ERA) and the Human Rights Act 1993 (HRA). An employee has been sexually harassed (1) if their employer (or a representative) directly or indirectly makes a request of that employee for sexual activity along with any implied or express promise or […]Continue reading

Anirudh Mukherjee wrote that female employees are furthering India’s economic development in equal proportion to their male counterparts, so gender parity is quintessential to all facets of employment, including recruitment, pay, growth and work conditions. Current law on the employment of women for night shifts is contained in the Factories Act of 1948 and the […]Continue reading

Indonesia is accelerating disbursement of some $50 billion in fiscal stimulus to revive consumer spending and prevent Southeast Asia’s largest economy from sliding into a recession. The government will pay 28.8 trillion rupiah ($1.96 billion) to civil servants and state pensioners as a 13th month salary starting this week, Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said. […]Continue reading