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Decoding Singapore’s New Workplace Rules

Navigating the evolving landscape of workplace regulations is crucial for business success. A recent TAFEP briefing, organised by AmCham Singapore, provided valuable insights into Singapore's upcoming workplace fairness legislation and flexible work arrangements. Discover practical tips to help your company adapt seamlessly and thrive in this new environment.

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Leading the Way with a Multi-Abled Workforce

Embracing diversity and inclusivity can positively transform your organisation, but achieving this requires a collective effort to educate and equip the workforce. To understand the challenges and opportunities, we hear from corporate communications professional Jacqueline Woo and seasoned consultant Himanshu Tambe, who share their personal experiences and valuable insights on fostering supportive environments for differently-abled employees.

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Navigating the Next-Gen Workforce: Exploring the Future of Work

Our managing director Evelyn Chow joined a panel discussion on 19 July led by Grab Singapore to delve into the future of work and to examine how advancements in technology are impacting the workforce and reshaping tomorrow’s organisations.

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Dealing with Gender Bias in the Workplace

Women are underrepresented in STEM and finance, even though research shows that women and men do not differ in mathematical ability or productivity. A key reason for this is gender bias. Companies should counter this by ensuring a fair recruitment and selection process, creating equal opportunities for promotion, increasing accountability of performance evaluations and making women feel welcome by fostering diversity and having female role models.

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More Bite-Sized and Culturally Nuanced Mental Health Solutions for the Workplace

We still need to talk about wellness. Even as the world learns to cope with Covid-19, the mental health pandemic is not abating. DecodeHR’s wellness tech partners say that wellness solutions need to be bite-sized and culturally nuanced.

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When Two HR Thought Leaders Connect Over Recruitment

The Talent Games CEO Paul Keijzer talks about the evolution of recruitment and how gamified assessments are upgrading candidate experiences, in a wide-ranging interview with DecodeHR Managing Director Evelyn Chow.

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“Radical Flexibility” at Work Sounds Great. But It May Not Be for Everyone

Letting employees determine where, when and how work is done is being put forth as what the future of work may look like. But context matters. Radical flexibility may not suit everyone. Our HR experts Evelyn Chow and Charlene Yong share their perspectives.

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Diversity and Inclusion: How to Be an Inclusive Leader

Inclusive leadership is increasingly important as a leadership quality which can foster Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace so that employees from diverse backgrounds can deliver their best at work. These are the 6 traits of inclusive leaders and concrete steps on how leaders can get there.

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Navigating the Great Resignation

Given the Great Resignation, a leader has to continually engage and motivate their employees so that they can give of the best of themselves at work, and stay on with the organisation. During the Mednefits RECHRGE podcast, our Managing Director Evelyn Chow shared insights on how leaders can do so.

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How Technology Can Simplify the Compensation and Rewards Process

A key HR process which has undergone digital transformation is in the area of compensation and rewards. The pandemic has made it necessary for organisations to have a strategic re-think about compensation and rewards, and that includes thinking about how to deploy technology to simplify the process and maximise its impact.

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The Way Forward: Customised Wellness Solutions

One-size-fits-all wellness apps are fast becoming obsolete. Instead, Artificial Intelligence and data are enabling customisation at scale, so thousands of employees can have their own personal wellness “coach” on their phones, in their pocket.

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3‌ ‌Insider‌ ‌Tips‌ ‌on‌ ‌Hiring‌ ‌Software‌ ‌Developers‌

Against a backdrop of increasing demand for tech talents but a small tech talent pool, here are some insider tips on how to sieve out and hire the best software developers.

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Going Agile in HR: Sustaining an Agile DNA

Being an Agile organisation is more than following a framework. You also need to adopt an Agile mindset. We explain five essential actions you can take to cultivate and sustain an Agile DNA in your organisation.

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Going Agile in HR: Getting There Faster

How long does it take to become fully Agile in HR? Short answer: it depends. But there are actions you can take to boost Agile adoption, which we outline in this article.

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Going Agile in HR: Key Transition Tips

If you are interested in Agile HR and taking the first steps, there are essential things to keep in mind. We go through what an Agile HR organisation looks like, the modern agile principles, and an infographic of critical things to know when going Agile.

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