The COVID-19 pandemic has severely crippled the global economy. While social distancing measures have been vital to securing people's lives and enabling effective governmental responses to the pandemic, SMEs around the world have been hit hard by these necessary measures.
Social distancing measures put...
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...
Infobip,
a global cloud communication platform company for businesses specialising in
omnichannel customer engagement announced on November 5 its partnership with
AmBank Group, one of Malaysia’s
largest banking groups.
Infobip
is part of AmBank's newly launched BizM.A.T.E (Multi-partner, Actionable,
Technologically Efficient Solutions) with 16 other partners, offering small-to-medium
enterprise (SME) client tools...
Given the worsening of both the global economy and COVID-19 outbreak, businesses hope for more support in defraying wage costs, more tax rebates and more assistance with manpower challenges including hiring, upskilling and retention of workers. This is according to a poll conducted by the Singapore Business...
The latest Global Interconnection Index (GXI Vol. 5), an annual market study published by Equinix, reveals that the pandemic has forced economies into digital overdrive, with digital leaders, businesses who were already implementing a digital-first strategy, moving four times faster than pre-pandemic levels.
These businesses in Asia-Pacific...
As companies and workers transition into an endemic world, upskilling remains a key driver to build new capabilities and soar forward. According to business leaders however, skills mismatch continues to be the most prevalent form of mismatches (63%).
This is in comparison to experience...
Over 75 per cent of Malaysian businesses have embraced at least one FinTech product or service over the past 12 months, according to findings from a new regional survey of business FinTech usage by global professional accounting organisation CPA Australia.
Mobile payments and digital wallets...
A survey of 300 operations managers in industrial sectors across the U.K., U.S. and Germany by ESG software, data and consulting firm Sphera, has found that 85% of companies now have net-zero strategies, but the majority are failing to incorporate them into daily business operations.
Only 41% of...
A report released by international accountancy network Kreston Global has revealed that SME business leaders in India and China appear significantly more likely to expand their businesses overseas than those elsewhere.
The report – based on a survey conducted in partnership with international market research organisation...
According to research by HPE Aruba Networking, 60% of Singaporean IT leaders (64% of global IT leaders) believe that cybersecurity concerns are negatively impacting their organization’s willingness to invest in innovative tech.
This is perhaps unsurprising as 92% in Singapore either consider emerging tech a danger or admit to having already experienced a breach because of it.
