Earlier this year, EngageRocket, in collaboration with the Institute for HR Professionals (IHRP) and the Singapore HR Institute (SHRI), launched the National Employee Experience Transformation (NEXT) programme for Singaporean companies to tap into people analytics to improve employee well-being and experience.
Since its launch on March 17, 2021, over 130,000...
Microsoft has announced the findings from its first annual Work Trend Index. Titled "The Next Great Disruption is Hybrid Work – Are We Ready?" the report uncovers seven hybrid work trends every business leader needs to know as we enter this new era of work. The report indicates that...
The pandemic's work-from-home reality resulted in an unprecedented change for organisations as they fought to defend exponentially greater attack surfaces from cybercriminals armed with powerful cloud-based tools, cloud storage and endless targets.
As working environments evolved, so did the methods of threat actors and other motivated perpetrators, as detailed in...
Despite four in five (81%) employers saying that workflow automation will enhance employees' work instead of replacing them, a number of challenges are still holding these organisations back. About two in three of them highlighted obstacles related to knowledge gaps such as 'a lack of background knowledge to utilise...
Xero Limited has announced the acquisition of Planday, a leading workforce management platform with more than 350,000 employee users across Europe and the UK that simplifies employee scheduling, allowing businesses to forecast and manage their labour costs.
Aligned with Xero’s strategic priority to grow the small business platform, the acquisition...
EngageRocket, an employee experience solution provider, has announced that they are joining forces with the Institute for HR Professionals (IHRP) and the Singapore HR Institute (SHRI) to help companies and leaders understand how the state of the workplace and employee experience has evolved one year into the pandemic.
Following from...
NTUC LearningHub (NTUC LHUB) has announced the launch of LHUB GO Infinity, Singapore’s largest subscription-based online learning platform, which offers on-demand access to over 75,000 bite-sized online courses.
LHUB GO Infinity, is designed in partnership with Go1 to create equal learning opportunities by making world-class content affordable and accessible to learners.
The announcement...
Despite majority of Singapore employers (89%) reporting that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of cloud computing and Machine Learning (ML) in their companies, obstacles abound.
Singapore business leaders say that the largest hindrance to adopting cloud computing and ML technologies is the shortage of relevant in-house IT support...
Wendong Li, Associate Professor at the Department of Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School teamed up with seven other academics to examine whether taking on a leadership role -- along with the added job responsibilities -- can actually change people's personality traits.
Prof. Li and...
Despite the pessimistic outlook towards the current job market, bright spots exist where more than half of employers across the board (56%) say they are looking to hire. This has been most apparent in industry clusters such as Essential Domestic Services (65%), Modern Services (62%), and Built Environment (61%).
These...
