As many countries around the world emerge from the first shock of the coronavirus pandemic and stay-at-home restrictions slowly lift, many employers are quickly learning that returning to the workplace does not equal returning to life as it was pre-pandemic and is actually more complicated than locking-down. While employers look for ways to preserve their employees’ […]Continue reading

The Australian government enacted personal service income (PSI) to deter taxpayers from splitting income for tax avoidance purposes. PSI itself is defined as an income produced from personal skills or effort as an individual regardless of business structure, such as consultants and contractors who operate their business through a company, partnership or trust.  To know […]Continue reading

PwC Annual Global CEO Survey found about 3 in 4 business leaders are concerned about lack of skills in their team which could hamper companies from growth. Addressing this issue, companies are starting to invest in employee upskilling. About 14 percent business leaders reported their upskilling programme has been very effective in creating a stronger […]Continue reading

Embracing the New Realities: The Digital Economy and the 4th Industrial Revolution Overview Join ASEANHR Media as they go digital. Take part in the CEO VIRTUAL SUMMIT as they discuss the measures and effects of changing times and talk about the most pressing challenges and questions today in the business industry. With 100,000+ Senior Leadership […]Continue reading

Singapore remains in the top 20 most expensive locations in the world for expatriates to live in, despite the impact of Covid-19. This was one of the findings of the latest Cost of Living survey published by ECA International, the world’s leading provider of knowledge, information and software for the management and assignment of employees […]Continue reading

Social media presents a wide array of exciting opportunities for recruitment industries, no wonder that 94 percent of recruiters use social media to find talents. The role of social media in the recruiting process is also predicted to constantly rise. Not only is social media a valuable source of information for recruiters, it is also […]Continue reading

Psychometric is derived from two words: “psycho” means mind and “metrics” means measurements. In a simple definition, psychometric can be described as measuring things related to the mind. When put into recruitment, HR professionals often refer to psychometric profiling (psychometric assessments) that means a convention and analytical procedure for measuring people’s mental capabilities and behavioural […]Continue reading

Workforce insights, as defined in KPMG Future of HR 2020, is about using data from different sources to address challenges related to the workforce and generating what might happen and actions needed to address emerging and predicted issues. Technology is the main fuel of this activity but is unlikely to be based solely on out-of-the-box […]Continue reading

Malaysia Human Resources Ministry tightened its regulations in 2019 by creating changes to the existing Employment Rules and Laws. HR Minister M. Kulasegaran said that the changes will amend the labour law to further safeguard the rights of workers. The proposed amendments and changes would involve seven pieces of labour-related legislation that can be summarised […]Continue reading

The coronavirus pandemic is decimating the jobs market. This can be seen not just from the retreat of highly paid jobs or even the painful retrenchments across various sectors. It can be seen from the disappearance of lowly paid internships. In normal times, most companies hire interns to provide working experience, get some low-level jobs done and […]Continue reading