Jun 14MobilityJeff Bote: Aligning personal and company goalsNew routines, new processes, and new human resource dynamics always spring from mergers. Such organisational change requires leadership...
Jun 7Regional Southeast AsiaViatris: Empowering a diverse workforce through collaborationOrganisational mergers mean changes and challenges for employees in terms of adapting to a new culture, structure, and performance. When...
Mar 30Diversity and InclusionDigital financing platform offers USD 3.5 million in staff sharesSINGAPORE: SME digital financing platform Funding Societies has announced a fourth round of its Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP), worth...
Mar 25Diversity and InclusionFive top tips for women juggling multi-hyphenated rolesHR ADVICE: As our final top tips special guest post to celebrate women leaders, Pauline Teo, Executive Director of Singapore-based...
Mar 22HR ProfessionSlow progress on women in leadership: Carmen Wee THE HR AGENDA: Singapore-based HR stalwart Carmen Wee says the region still has a problem with getting women into leadership and board...
Mar 17Diversity and InclusionSurvey: Workplace biases limit opportunities for womenSINGAPORE: Conscious and unconscious biases in workplaces are seen to constrict opportunities for females in leadership and technical...
Mar 16RegulationSingapore to introduce a new visa policy for foreign workersSINGAPORE: From 2023, Singapore will introduce a new work permit approval system to help screen and approve foreign professionals, the...
Mar 15Diversity and InclusionLawmaker urges prioritising local manpower INDONESIA: The empowerment of the domestic workforce must be prioritised in national infrastructure projects led by foreign contractors,...
Mar 9Diversity and InclusionTrip.com claims highest gender equality in local travel sectorSINGAPORE: Locally-based travel services provider Trip.com Group says it leads the rejuvenating travel industry when it comes to female...
Mar 4Diversity and InclusionTop 5 Tips: Ensuring women can access the leadership ranksHR ADVICE: This special instalment of Chief of Staff Asia's Top Five Tips series comes ahead of International Women's Day on March 8....
Mar 1Diversity and InclusionSingapore: Top five among employee-inclusive countriesSINGAPORE: The country placed fifth in a study that examined employee inclusion among almost 150 companies, across nine Asia-Pacific...
Feb 21Diversity and InclusionStrategies needed to tap senior workforce potential SINGAPORE: Better managing diversity and inclusion in businesses would enable the country to fully use its "longevity dividend", Minister...
Feb 11Diversity and InclusionGovernment accused of overcharging for Covid testsTHAILAND: Activists have accused Thai authorities of profiteering and discrimination against migrant workers who are forced to take...
Jan 14Compensation and BenefitsGlovemaker Supermax improves foreign worker policiesMALAYSIA: Glove brand, Supermax Corp., has improved its human resources policies and presented a revised foreign worker management...
Jan 13Compensation and BenefitsFour trends that HR can expect in 2022: Chief of Staff reportRESEARCH: It's January, 2022 but there's no downtime for the HR profession in Southeast Asia. The latest report from Chief of Staff Asia,...
Jan 7Compensation and BenefitsIs it time to change hiring strategies and practices? RECRUITMENT STRATEGY: Nearly two years after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world and we are seeing a drastic change in what people want...
Dec 19, 2021Regional Southeast AsiaThe best Southeast Asian cities to live and work in 2021SOUTHEAST ASIA: Ranked accordingly, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, and Bangkok made it to the list of cities that expatriates...
Dec 5, 2021Diversity and InclusionWomen's group unhappy with Employment Act revisionsMALAYSIA: The Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) is not pleased with the amendments to the Employment Act 1955, deeming that they fall short...
Dec 2, 2021RegulationEmployers commend initiatives in the 2022 BudgetMALAYSIA: The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) praised the government for the provisions stated in the 2022 Budget. MEF president...
Nov 21, 2021Diversity and InclusionSG to increase the retirement age and CPF contributionsSINGAPORE: Singaporean senior citizens may now continue working with the raise in retirement and re-employment ages that the law will...
Nov 17, 2021Diversity and InclusionMore job contracts for the disabled sought THAILAND: The country’s labour ministry is hoping to generate 1,000 contracts from private companies to give disabled people more job...
Nov 11, 2021Diversity and InclusionWorking women will be key to pandemic recovery plan: ILOPHILIPPINES: The International Labor Organization said that the Philippines needs a gender-responsive pandemic recovery plan because...
Nov 3, 2021Compensation and BenefitsMore Asia leaders in PR firms but pay disparity still an issue ASIA PACIFIC: While several major Public Relations firms have addressed historic imbalances across local markets by hiring Asians into...
Oct 28, 2021Diversity and InclusionCreating a roadmap to success for women in HRUPCOMING EVENT: The Asia HR Woman Club is hosting a free event this weekend, bringing together 10 panelists from five different cities...