The term mushroom management refers to a style management where employees (who are illustrated as mushrooms) are kept in the dark and periodically given a load of manure. The “mushroom managers” could be described as managers who plant their employees knee-deep (or worse) in the smelly stuff and keep them in the dark. In practice, […]Continue reading

Outsourcing is one of the common business practices of contracting an outside party to take care of particular tasks, usually to save company’s budget by hiring temporary workers and to streamline operations while still handling important functions. Outsourced tasks might be occasional, such as hiring an accountant to do company’s taxes once a year. Outsourced […]Continue reading

Paperspace Asia, the Singapore-based workplace interior design collective, has revealed their findings of its new research examining the impact of COVID-19 on the future of the workplace on 10 September 2020. “Workplace Adaptation – Your New ‘Agile’” is a survey of nearly 500 employees and interviews with 25 C-suite business leaders across Singapore, Thailand, The […]Continue reading

The Progressive Alliance Towards Healthy Workplaces (PATHw), a Pan-Asia coalition of human resources and business leaders, spearheaded an Asia-wide virtual roundtable, titled “Reimagining Healthier Workplaces in Asia”, to promote healthier workplaces and employee behaviours in the region. The virtual roundtable was held in support of Migraine Awareness Week and brought together key leaders from health, human […]Continue reading