The government, through the National Employment Council (NEC), will strive to create 500,000 jobs despite the country being in a dire economic situation as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said this was because the number of those unemployed this year has increased to 700,000 or 5.6 percent compared […]Continue reading

Technology will disrupt the current state of HR and reinvent HR’s roles in the future to drive business transformation and productivity. A new study by Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, and commissioned by the Institute for Human Resource Professionals and Ministry of Manpower in Singapore, released today reveals that […]Continue reading

The 2019 World Development Report highlights the changing nature of work across the globe. In high-income countries, which include most countries in Europe and Asia, having a good basic education will not be enough to be productively included in the labour market in the coming decades. Productive workers will need good-quality higher education. Therefore, in […]Continue reading

Monotonous working activity and lack of challenges seems to be a serious issue for employees nowadays, which could lead to job hopping behaviour and thus put a risk to employee retention strategy. A survey commissioned by career platform LinkedIn suggested one in three professionals in India said they were ‘sleepwalking’ at work. The survey conducted […]Continue reading

Are you team Nam Do-San or team Han Ji-Pyeong? If you are active on social media, you might have noticed that many people are currently enthusiastic about a Korean drama: Start-Up. Telling the story of a group of young people’s struggle in building a tech startup, this drama captivates many viewers because of its interesting […]Continue reading

When the health and economic crises caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are brought under control, policy efforts in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) will need to address the steep fall in productivity growth over the past decade and focus on structural reforms that are essential to reignite long-term growth prospects. Strengthening governance and improving institutional […]Continue reading

This article is a guest post. As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted business operations on an unprecedented scale, organizations focus on mitigating the impact of the crisis. Deploying collaboration technology became the priority as employees shifted to work from home. But now that businesses are past the early pivot point, they must turn an eye to […]Continue reading

The Malaysian Trades Union Congress has shot down a suggestion by the World Bank to gradually increase the retirement age to 65, saying it will only lead to more unemployment among the youth. Instead, the government should increase the minimum wage, said MTUC deputy president Mohd Effendy Abdul Ghani in an interview with Free Malaysia […]Continue reading

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, working from home sky-rocketed in China as companies told their employees to stay home. Around 200 million people were working remotely by the end of the Chinese New Year holiday. While this arrangement has some benefits, such as avoiding long commutes, many employees and companies found it challenging. […]Continue reading