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Joshua Woo Wei Liang, co-founder, Recruit Fast, explains that high failure rates in new hires across Southeast Asia are often rooted in broken, inconsistent recruitment systems rather than the candidates themselves, necessitating a shift towards structured hiring models that prioritise operational reliability and skills-based evaluation over fragmented, traditional processes.
- Guest Contributor
Sustainable people practices strengthen organisational resilience by embedding fairness, capability building, and long-term workforce planning into HR strategy.
- Chief of Staff Asia Newsroom
HR technology helps organisations in Southeast Asia translate Labour Day principles into everyday workforce decisions and practices.
- Chief of Staff Asia Newsroom
Wong Yi Ning Eilyn, Assistant Special Education Teacher at Bridging the Gap, explains that her experience in early intervention has redefined leadership as a practice of empathy, steady presence, and the valuation of incremental progress rather than a reflection of age or formal authority.
- Guest Contributor
Systemic burnout emerges when structural pressures normalise exhaustion, undermining engagement, retention, and long-term organisational performance.
- Chief of Staff Asia Newsroom
Experience-led learning platforms are replacing traditional LMS in Southeast Asia by prioritising relevance, engagement, and flexibility.
- Chief of Staff Asia Newsroom