As International Women’s Day approaches, we should keep in mind that gender equality in business does make good economic sense. However, despite researches emphasizing the benefits of having more women in the workforce, women still face significant barriers in achieving job-related opportunities. In LinkedIn’s Opportunity Index 2021, women respondents cited lack of time (62 percent), a […]Continue reading

Registered employees will have access to contactless fulfilment and delivery of medical prescriptions by their corporate healthcare providers with HealthMetrics’ new e-pharmacy service. HR teams will now have access to enhanced tools, allowing them to keep track of all employee prescriptions, receive real-time updates in the event of their employees requiring hospitalization and more. Malaysia’s […]Continue reading

Exxon Mobil Corp. expects to cut about 300 jobs in the Asian oil-trading hub of Singapore by the end of 2021, part of a global retrenchment that was announced last year. The planned lay-offs equate to about 7% of its 4,000-strong workforce in the city-state, the company said in a statement. It follows similar announcements in […]Continue reading

Effective human resource governance and decision-making establishes a framework for transformation and can improve the odds of solidifying change and realising the benefits of transformation.  What is HR governance?   Initiated by Dave Ulrich, the term HR governance is more popular as ‘human governance’, until experts clearly defined HR governance as a regulatory framework for […]Continue reading

Business experts have been predicting that the future belongs to remote working. The number of people working primarily from home has gone up 115 percent and remote work has grown faster than any other commute method. The presence of COVID-19 pandemic has also pushed further this trend, with those who never tried exacted to experience […]Continue reading

A recent survey suggested that getting vaccinated or not could affect one’s employment opportunities, but many are either unsure about getting the Covid-19 vaccine or do not plan to get it. What can business leaders do about this? The answer is quite simple: incentives. According to the latest research commissioned by Blackhawk Network, certain incentives […]Continue reading

This article is a guest post.  Those days are long gone when coworking spaces used to be occupied only by startups and freelancers. Due to the flexibility and agility offered by shared workspace providers, there are many MNCs and large corporations using coworking spaces more often rather than private offices. These more flexible workspaces give […]Continue reading

Emerging from the labour market slump as unemployment eases post-COVID recovery, Singapore’s hiring outlook is on the mend with an upward trend in industries worst affected by COVID, as well as in COVID-proof jobs that continue to observe sustained strong demand in job postings in 2020 Q4 (October to December) according to the latest data […]Continue reading

Zero Discrimination Day is celebrated each year on 1st March, highlighting the urgent need to take action to end the inequalities surrounding critical issues, including sex, age, health status, occupation, disability, sexual orientation, drug use, gender identity, race, class, ethnicity and religion. In this article, HR in Asia would like to celebrate the day by […]Continue reading

The Human Resources Ministry (KSM) has set a target of a 20 percent increase in job placements through the national employment portal, MYFutureJobs, this year. Its minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said the stipulation was made as 161,603 individuals successfully managed to obtain jobs through the portal in the second half of last year following […]Continue reading