Wage subsidies under the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) will be extended for the worst-hit sectors in Singapore’s economy during the pandemic. Meanwhile, the current tranche of payments will continue to cover wages up to March 2021, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on Tuesday (Feb 16). First introduced in the Budget 2020 statement, the […]Continue reading
Technology has infused all parts of our working lives, none more so that in HR departments. HR professionals need to leverage technology to make their lives easier and more efficient, as well as understand the tech if they are to source and hire the right people for the right jobs. One emerging field is ‘No […]Continue reading
The Philippines can expect growing optimism in regard to recruitment and hiring activities this year. Data from the latest study commissioned by Michael Page Philippines found 35% of companies in the country are planning to increase their headcounts, while another 45% will maintain the status quo in 2021. Coomenting on the findings of Talent Trends […]Continue reading
Malaysia is committed to providing a free COVID-19 vaccination programme to all residents in the country, and that will include foreigners residing in the country. The government has said on Thursday (Feb 11) that this will include students, refugees and undocumented migrants. The country is expected to start its first vaccine rollout at the end […]Continue reading
Managers often perceive newcomers in their team as both long-term assets and short-term burdens, mainly because new hires will need to be inducted, trained, and given lighter loads before they are able to get up to speed, thus inevitably slowing everyone else down in the process. But are rookies really inefficacious or was it just […]Continue reading
The rollout of vaccination programmes scheduled for the end of this month will further boost the Malaysian economy and help in creating more jobs possibly by the second half of 2021, the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) said. Executive director Datuk Shamsuddin Bardan said more employers would be ready to employ people for a longer term rather than […]Continue reading
This article is a guest post. You really want to grow your business. But you don’t have a clear idea of where to begin. You’re not alone! Many entrepreneurs and business owners are or have been in the same situation at one point or another in their careers. Things could be a tad easier if […]Continue reading
Discovering and attracting excellent talents is never simple. Employers are finding it harder and harder to source the right talent for their company. In areas where unemployment rates are higher, job postings can receive thousands of applicants, but only few are relevant to the required skills. To make it worse, the workforce does not have […]Continue reading
Teleworking has become the norm for some time now, with employers are encouraged to let their workers stay at home and work remotely whenever possible. However, a new survey has found that most employers were not considering adjusting their employee’s compensation based on location. Nearly 1 in 4 (23 percent) of employers said they may […]Continue reading
2020 was dubbed as ‘the worst year on record’ RiskBased Security, given a staggering 36 billion records were exposed throughout the year. Names (45.1 percent), along with access credentials in the form of email addresses (36 percent) and passwords (29.4 percent), continue to be the most exposed data types. Internal, non-personal identifiable information categorised as […]Continue reading
