Starting from today (Monday, Sept 28), the government allows Singaporean workers who have been working from home during the pandemic to return to offices for up to half of their total working time. For this, employers must ensure that only half of their employees are working at the workplace while the rest should remain work […]Continue reading

Although employee engagement has become something of an HR fad, it would be hard to deny that it matters. In fact, robust meta-analytic studies show that higher levels of engagement boost employee wellbeing, performance, and retention. For example, engaged business units tend to deliver better performance, as measured in terms of revenues and profits, and […]Continue reading

The world of work has undergone enormous changes in both nature of work and the emergence of new forms of work, which result from innovation, development of new knowledge, increased competition, and other factors. Today, work life is characterised by complexity, unpredictability, and insecurity, in which a principal challenge is to remain current with changes […]Continue reading

Covid-19 pandemic has caused 15,666 workers in Malaysian lose their jobs in Singapore between January and July 2020. Most of those hit were in the service sector, Human Resources Minister Datuk Seri M. Saravanan said. “Statistics by the Malaysian High Commission in Singapore indicated that Malaysian workers in the service sector were the worst hit, […]Continue reading

The higher employee engagement is, the more willing employees are to put in discretionary effort (such as: go the extra mile). But, employee satisfaction and engagement are difficult to actualise because of employee turnover, dynamic nature of work, existing organisational hierarchy, and differing perspectives among workers, their immediate supervisors, senior management and human resource practitioners. […]Continue reading

Aon plc has released the results of a new global pulse survey focused on how companies are rethinking their human capital strategies in response to the humanitarian and economic impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The COVID-19 crisis has forced companies to evaluate employees beyond their current roles and look closely at employee potential, […]Continue reading

Objective and fair selection criteria should be consistently applied at all stages of the recruitment process. This will help ensure that the best candidate, assessed based on the candidate’s ability to perform a job, is recruited to fill the post. Staff involved in the recruitment process, including human resource staff, hiring managers, line supervisors and […]Continue reading

The Government of India has approved the introduction of a credit-linked subsidy programme called Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) for generation of employment opportunities through establishment of micro enterprises in rural as well as urban areas. PMEGP will be a central sector scheme to be administered by the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium […]Continue reading

Almost two thirds of workers in Singapore (65%) expect their industry will change for the better after COVID-19 due to the changes being implemented in response to the pandemic, according to new research released from Qualtrics. This is one of the key findings from Qualtrics’ Work Different study, which draws upon insights from more than […]Continue reading