The government, through the National Employment Council (NEC), will strive to create 500,000 jobs despite the country being in a dire economic situation as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said this was because the number of those unemployed this year has increased to 700,000 or 5.6 percent compared […]Continue reading

Technology will disrupt the current state of HR and reinvent HR’s roles in the future to drive business transformation and productivity. A new study by Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, and commissioned by the Institute for Human Resource Professionals and Ministry of Manpower in Singapore, released today reveals that […]Continue reading

The 2019 World Development Report highlights the changing nature of work across the globe. In high-income countries, which include most countries in Europe and Asia, having a good basic education will not be enough to be productively included in the labour market in the coming decades. Productive workers will need good-quality higher education. Therefore, in […]Continue reading

Monotonous working activity and lack of challenges seems to be a serious issue for employees nowadays, which could lead to job hopping behaviour and thus put a risk to employee retention strategy. A survey commissioned by career platform LinkedIn suggested one in three professionals in India said they were ‘sleepwalking’ at work. The survey conducted […]Continue reading