Excellence in HR recognised at HRM Asia Readers’ Choice Awards 2025
The HR community gathered on December 4 as HRM Asia celebrated the Readers’ Choice Awards 2025 and honoured this year’s top-performing HR partners.
Building Singapore’s future-ready workforce: Why the human element drives success
As AI accelerates shifts in workforce skills, LinkedIn’s Elsie Ng highlights why agility, upskilling and mentorship are now strategic imperatives.
StarHub at 25: Redefining wellbeing from a programme to a way of working
Tan Toi Chia shows how StarHub turns wellbeing into everyday work, embedding clarity, care, and connection into its culture.
The multi-stage career: Redefining longevity, purpose, and flexibility in the modern workforce
Low Peck Kem examines how organisations must rethink careers, flexibility, and leadership to engage Gen Z and thrive in a multigenerational workforce.
Organisations in Singapore turn cautious as costs climb and talent pressures intensify
Business confidence in Singapore is slipping as organisations confront escalating costs, global uncertainties and persistent workforce challenges heading into 2026.
AI is transforming business. How do future careers begin?
Automation is accelerating across Asia, but as digital systems take over foundational tasks, organisations risk losing the early-career roles that once built future leaders.
Appreciation as leadership currency is a high-pressure era
The way that leadership circulates appreciation impacts organisational culture far beyond a moment of positive feedback.
Employees in Singapore lack flexible hours despite hybrid work trend
Employees in Singapore largely welcome return-to-office mandates, but gaps in flexible hours and workplace perks threaten retention and engagement.
AI reshapes workforce: Two-thirds of organisations expect steep decline in entry-level hiring
AI adoption is rapidly reshaping global workforces, slowing entry-level hiring and intensifying skills shortages as organisations race to redesign roles and reskill talent.
Microsoft’s HR playbook: Building capability, confidence and culture in an AI-driven workplace
Microsoft is redefining HR transformation across Asia-Pacific, showcasing how AI can empower people, accelerate change, and position HR as strategic innovators.
The post-role era: Talent leaders must now orchestrate a ‘skillforce’
Skillsoft’s Mark Onisk argues that AI’s rapid task-level disruption demands real-time skills intelligence to guide HR’s augment, automate, or acquire decisions.
The commercial case for purpose: Why Grundfos’ new CHRO is acting as a “multiplier of growth”
Anne Grønbjerg steps in as Grundfos’ CHRO with a mission to unite purpose, people, and performance across the organisation’s global workforce.
Amplifying talent, not replacing it: A new vision for AI in corporate services
While many corporate service organisations are cutting headcount to fund AI investments, forward-thinking organisations are taking a different path, one where technology empowers people rather than replaces them.
Why HR leaders must ‘walk the talk’ to bridge the AI tech-savviness gap
In the latest Asia HR Leaders Live Series, Mattel’s Tina Ko outlined how HR leaders can balance AI adoption with people-centric change management.
Why is change management keeping HR up at night?
At LinkedIn’s recent conference, Jay Shetty and Thasunda Brown Duckett explored what modern HR-led change management should look like.
Skills, AI, and culture: Inside Mondelez’s next-generation HR strategy
As technology transforms work, Mondelez’s Rajesh Ramanathan is redefining how capacity, capability, and culture drive inclusive growth across diverse markets.
NWC guidelines push for wage flexibility and business transformation alongside mandated pay increases
The National Wages Council recommends pay increases of 5.5% to 7.5% for lower-wage workers in Singapore and encourages employers to adopt flexible pay structures and upskill employees.
Daily GenAI use linked to higher pay, productivity, and job security
Frequent GenAI users are seeing tangible benefits, reporting stronger performance and better career outcomes than non-users, PwC’s latest findings show.
New Workplace Fairness Act establishes legal path for discrimination claims
Parliament passes key Bill, bringing Singapore’s Workplace Fairness Act closer to launch with stronger discrimination protections and dispute safeguards.
After-work socials may not boost everyone’s morale, study finds
Invitations to team dinners and drinks can improve workplace connection for some, yet create anxiety for others, a new study shows.
Building trust and innovation through psychological safety in the workplace
According to Steven Filby, fostering psychological safety is the key to unlocking trust, innovation, and stronger team performance.
The agile anchor: How Lenovo reimagines stability for a volatile world
Subhankar Roy Chowdhury of Lenovo argues that in a volatile world, HR success depends on alignment, agility, and shared organisational vision.
Beyond instinct: Why leadership assessments matter more than ever
Leadership assessments reveal more than skills and experience—they uncover a person’s impact and potential, helping organisations make smarter, fairer talent decisions. For leaders themselves, they are opportunities for greater clarity and self-awareness.
SMU Academy forges new learning pathways with polytechnics and ITE to fast-track workforce upskilling
New SMU Academy MOU creates credit exemptions and progression routes, empowering polytechnic and ITE graduates to advance quickly in higher education.
SAP Connect 2025: AI ushers in new era for work, putting HR at the centre of disruption
For SAP’s Tim Bryant and Verena Siow, AI in the workplace is redefining HR, driving smarter decisions and unlocking meaningful outcomes for employees and organisations alike.
The new HR mindset: Doing what matters most with what you have
In an AsiaHRM webinar hosted by Rita Tsui, Société Générale’s Mukta Arya urges HR leaders to drive greater impact amid budget constraints through strategy, data, and empathy.
The culture code: Merz Aesthetics balances digital agility and human connection to boost APAC growth
Karen Tay highlights how Merz Aesthetics in Asia-Pacific creates a values-driven, future-ready workplace that empowers employees to grow and lead.
Workplace conflicts drive Japan’s surge in mental health compensation claims
Japan’s mental health crisis deepens as record-high employee compensation claims reveal persistent stress and harassment despite progress on curbing overwork.
To stay competitive, talent acquisition must be AI-first
Traditional recruitment is breaking down, and according to analyst Stella Ioannidou of the Josh Bersin Company, the future lies in AI-empowered talent acquisition.
Tech can’t replicate empathy: The enduring value of the ‘hospitality mindset’
As Asia’s hospitality sector braces for an uncertain 2026, Chen Bao of EHL Campus (Singapore) says the industry’s greatest competitive edge lies in its people, not its technology.