The mass adoption of remote working brought on by the unfortunate COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that many organizations needed to radically rethink how they operate. Most likely, successful businesses will be ‘networks’ of people and technologies, with physical location becoming less important. As we move into the “next normal”, how can we create the best […]Continue reading

Many people have been pending and even canceling their travel plans due to the pandemic, including the business-related ones. Throughout 2020, the world can see that travels have been limited to contain the spread of Covid-19. But now with restrictions relaxed and organisations are resuming their operations, there is an increment in business travels. Today, […]Continue reading

Team’s performance and productivity fluctuates from time to time for all sorts of reasons, such as overworked or overwhelming responsibilities at a time. Scott Anthony, the managing partner of Innosight and author of The First Mile, pointed out that every employee is day-by-day monitoring the same data, interacting with same people, and having same conversations, […]Continue reading

The government has urged Singaporean firms to let their staff work from home whenever they can. But, it seems that some employers are finding it hard to implement. Between September 28 last year and January 15 this year, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has penalised at least 42 employers for failing to adhere to workplace […]Continue reading

HR practitioners often stumble upon current issues that do not have an answer in any textbooks. This could be frustrating when the very issue occurs at the company you are working for. The best place to turn to for those answers is your peers, either internally within your organisation or externally through HR groups. By […]Continue reading

Malaysia’s Health Ministry (MOH) is targeting the Covid-19 vaccination programme in the country to be completed by the end of this year or early next year. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the vaccination programme would involve three phases with the first phase expected to start in March involving half a million […]Continue reading

Data governance, privacy, and ethics are envisioned to become more pressing topics for companies in 2021. While the rewards of using data are great, so too are the risks connected with abusing, losing, and misusing data.  The marriage of HR and analytics   There is a widely-held notion that the best salespeople were extroverted because […]Continue reading

Question: According to Barco’s survey, employees no longer find remote working fun due to various reasons. So, what can leaders do if they want to make remote arrangements permanent? Answer: Many organisations have benefited from their employees working remotely and, hybrid working arrangements will be the norm. Flexible workplace schedules should be implemented to allow […]Continue reading

Many countries across the globe have launched their vaccination programs to contain the spread of Covid-19, with the government typically mandated a list of priority groups to decide who will get the jabs early. For the first time since the pandemic began, there is now hope for a brighter future with mass vaccination, said OECD […]Continue reading

A gender gap between male and female leadership in a working environment seems to be one of the controversial topics garnering a lot of attention from the HR fraternity across industries. At some point, people still hold onto a traditional viewpoint that men are born to be leaders and women are supposed to behave like […]Continue reading