HR is being rewritten. The CHROs who move first will write it
HR, as practised for the last 30 years, will not be the same by 2030. But Skillsoft’s Ciara Harrington sees this as an opportunity, not a threat, for the function.
When a colleague’s heart stops, who steps forward?
As Singapore introduces a certification for cardiac-ready workplaces, a survivor and a cardiologist share what it takes for colleagues to act when a cardiac emergency strikes.
Fractional HR is being built one practitioner at a time
Senior HR leadership has long meant a full-time, in-house executive. In the first two pieces, Gwen Lockington, Founder and Principal of Lockington People and Advisory, looks at where the fractional model fits, when a business needs senior HR leadership, and what the shift asks of the leaders who make it.
Embraer’s talent strategy: Why aerospace needs people who cross disciplines
Asia-Pacific’s aviation sector has no shortage of engineers. What Embraer struggles to find are people who combine technical depth with commercial and customer skills. Andreza Alberto, Executive Vice-President of People, ESG and Corporate Communications, explains how the aircraft maker develops them.
The more efficient we get, the more there is to do
There is a lot of talk about AI eliminating work. An emerging risk is that it will multiply it.
Change fatigue and AI: How leaders can keep teams thinking
As change fatigue sets in and AI takes on more of the work, organisational creativity specialist Dr Ken Hudson explains how small, two-minute shifts in thinking can help teams adapt.
Career switch into AI and data: What employers should look for
Employers building AI capability are increasingly hiring from outside the technical pipeline. Joycelyn Woo, who moved from real estate marketing to Synapxe’s Data, AI and Innovation team, on what made her transition work and what the people doing the hiring tend to miss.
Renewable energy’s talent shortage in South-East Asia: Why you cannot outbid your way out
Levanta Renewables’ Sonia Liew on building a human capital function across South-East Asia while the sector’s demand for talent outruns supply.
Anthropic’s people products head on the recruiter’s evolving role and how Claude can help
In an HR Tech keynote, Anthropic’s head of people products explored AI’s role in hiring design and connecting HR systems.
Former Tesla HR leader: ‘AI is our moment’
At the HR Strategy Summit at HR Tech, Valerie Capers Workman explored what HR needs to do differently to step into the new expectations for the HR function.
Asia is not one culture. Pandora built its Singapore hub on knowing the difference
With Pandora’s Asia headquarters now open in Marina Bay, Chief People and Planet Officer Byron Clayton explains what the region demands of a people function, and why the company now talks about careers instead of career paths.
Building the ESG framework was the easy part. Changing the culture was not
Speaking at AsiaHRM’s latest LinkedIn Live session, ACEN’s Irene Maranan explained how the renewable energy company moved ESG from reporting into everyday business decisions, and why getting people on board took more work than writing the policies.
Why return-to-work for women starts before she resigns
Career breaks are often the end point of months of unmet requests, new research by the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (SCWO) finds. Its CEO, Koh Yan Ping, on what employers miss while a woman is still in the job.
Experiment first, strategy later: How AI is entering the workplace
Three waves of University of Konstanz research show AI use at work rising slowly and often arriving without the employer’s involvement. Study head Florian Kunze explains why the divides are widening as it spreads.
How CHAGEE rebuilt a tea store to run on sight instead of sound
When CHAGEE opened Singapore’s first Signing Store, staffed by deaf and hard-of-hearing baristas, it arrived as a milestone in workplace inclusion. More than a year on, chief executive Lawrence Wen and barista Victor Teo suggest its success is better measured by how ordinary it has come to feel.
CHRO Singapore 2026: Time saved, skills at risk, trust on the line
From productivity gains to disappearing entry-level work and the gap between what leaders and employees sees, the conversation at CHRO Series Singapore 2026 kept returning to what AI changes for people.
The new AI skills gap isn’t technical. It’s human
As AI accelerates work, organisations must strengthen employees’ critical thinking, communication, and judgement so faster outputs translate into better decisions.
A new way to measure digital wellbeing, and a warning about measuring it alone
New research shifts the digital wellbeing question from how much technology employees use to how they use it – while cautioning that training alone leaves the demands untouched.
Every problem they solved had a precedent. That is the warning sign
The second part of our look at the research on resilience across cultures turns to what organisations can build – starting with the uncomfortable possibility that stability itself gets in the way.
Mental health at work: When well-meaning caution narrows a career
Employers have expanded mental wellness provisions considerably. Andrea Chan of TOUCH Community Services explains why the harder test comes after an employee speaks up.
Overqualification can strain family life, or free it up
Being overqualified leaves some employees anxious and drained at home, and gives others more time for family. What sets them apart is which of the two they value more.
Why redesigning a job takes more than the equipment that prompted it
With Singapore’s workforce no longer growing and a larger foreign workforce off the table, facilities management is reshaping its frontline roles. ICFM’s Lynn Lim on multi-skilled teams, an ageing workforce, and why a robot on its own changes nothing.
Full training attendance, clean audit, and still exposed
Most organisations have the policies. Speakers at AsiaHRM’s latest LinkedIn Live session discussed what happens when nobody checks that those policies are followed, and when people who raise concerns go unheard.
Your untouchable leaders are costing more than you think
Whether the leader is intimidating or micromanaging, it is time to get them to look in the mirror.
Capability is harder to recognise when it arrives in an unfamiliar shape
New research on resilience across cultures finds that organisations tend to recognise the version of it they already know how to read – with consequences that run through performance reviews, succession and the problems that never get escalated.
The design was the easy part: UOB’s Dean Tong on making workforce change stick
UOB’s Head of Group Human Resources on productivity that lasts, reskilling that turns into real mobility, and how judgement gets built once routine work is automated.
Your frontline workers see problems before you do
The employees closest to your customers can see what leadership cannot. The CHROs who build systems to hear them and act on their feedback build the most resilient organisations.
Own data, not benchmarks: What holds up in a board conversation on wellbeing
Employers overwhelmingly say workplace wellbeing matters. AIA Singapore’s Kenneth Tan tells HRM Asia why that agreement rarely survives contact with a board, and what evidence does.
A generation is arriving fluent in AI. Nobody has worked out how to train them
Students in Singapore are entering work more fluent in AI than the organisations hiring them. OpenAI’s Raghav Gupta on productive struggle, the apprenticeship, and what comfort with these tools does not tell you about a person.
AI is creating capacity. Where it goes decides the value
Ahead of CHRO Series Indonesia 2026, Novo Indonesia’s Adhika Widya Sena on the move from implementing HR technology to shaping the human operating model around it.