By treating your employees fairly and providing them with opportunities to grow, it will help you achieve your ideas and hit your business goals. What exactly is Human Resources? Human Resources (HR) is the management and development of employees in an organization. Which then, increases employee performance. In traditional terms, HR is focused on hiring,...
The company in Singapore had hired a new vice-president but a background-check organization it engaged found that he had fake academic qualifications, so the firm fired him. While fake degrees or diplomas are not a new phenomenon, companies often still fall prey to dishonest job seekers, background-check companies told The Straits Times. On Feb 17,...
An employer in Singapore was recently barred from offering government-subsided traineeships and attachments after an employment dispute involving a former trainee went viral. ‘Michael’ had accepted a 12-month traineeship program with the employer under the SGUnited initiative, which was introduced to support companies’ manpower issues amidst the pandemic. It was reported that two months into...
The past few months have been a rollercoaster of change As the world starts to accept remote work as a constant, employers are understandably left with more questions than answers. While there is no denying that remote work saved many businesses, it was never really considered a realistic, long-term, plan. Employers entered a sort of...
As the standard-bearer in the war against COVID-19, it should be unsurprising that one in three HR professionals are unhappy at work. The recent study, conducted during the pandemic, found that nearly half are unsatisfied with their jobs, compared to pre-COVID times. Besides feeling the brunt of their new roles as crisis managers and having...
History of Blue Monday The term was coined by Dr. Cliff Arnall, in conjunction with Sky Travel, who calculated the precise day by looking at weather (W), post-holiday debt (d), time since Christmas (T), failing New Year’s resolutions (Q), low motivation (M), and a lack of decisive action (Na). Whatever the etymology behind the name,...
