Traditionally, the average general retirement age is 60 to 65. However, recent research has found that more people opt to “work longer before retiring”. Various reasons are behind this trend, either the retirees want to continue working or they simply need to provide for their family. Along with the rising employment of older workers in […]
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Date: February 4, 2021 at 09:01
Author: hrinasia – Renny

With the one-year anniversary of the pandemic lockdown looming, cleanliness and disinfection is a priority in virtually every setting. Although signs of fatigue are growing, also on the rise are employees’ concerns about the safety of their work environment. Despite companies’ expanded cleaning protocols and the increasing availability of vaccines, there are indications that there […]
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Date: February 4, 2021 at 06:00
Author: hrinasia – Nurlita

The year 2020 was tumultuous with mass layoffs and furlough dominated the market across industries. It has also left the travel, tourism, and hospitality sectors hit the hardest, with retrenchment numbers exceeding those seen in the Global Financial Crisis in 2008. International travel was seen to be the most impacted as it continues to have […]
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Date: February 3, 2021 at 09:03
Author: hrinasia – Renny

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 […]
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Date: February 3, 2021 at 09:03
Author: hrinasia – Nurlita

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, […]
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Date: February 2, 2021 at 12:00
Author: hrinasia – Nurlita

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, […]
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Date: February 2, 2021 at 09:04
Author: hrinasia – Shi Wen

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 […]
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Date: February 1, 2021 at 15:00
Author: hrinasia – Nurlita

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 […]
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Date: February 1, 2021 at 09:04
Author: hrinasia – Renny

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 […]
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Date: January 29, 2021 at 12:03
Author: hrinasia – Nurlita

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 […]
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Date: January 29, 2021 at 09:03
Author: hrinasia – Renny