CHRO Thailand 2026 to spotlight AI, talent and workforce transformation
From AI governance to talent retention and workforce productivity, CHRO Thailand 2026 will spotlight the pressing people challenges shaping the future of work in Thailand.
Retrenchments climb to five-year high as Singapore’s job market keeps growing
Singapore’s labour market remained resilient in Q2 2026 with employment continuing to grow despite a rise in retrenchments driven by business restructuring in key sectors.
AI works better when HR helps lead it, new research finds
A recent survey shows AI’s real fault line is organisational: whether HR has a formal seat at the table for AI implementation.
Age-aware isn’t enough. It’s time to become age-inclusive
Age is one of the last dimensions where assumptions still pass as management judgment. Rachele Focardi on why avoiding the generational conversation is making things worse, not better.
The hardest question in AI transformation: “So what?”
Two years into HubSpot’s AI-first journey, adoption and fluency turned out to be the easy part. The real work, says its talent chief, lies in a “missing middle” most organisations never see.
Allyship in technology: Why intentional support still matters
NTT DATA’s Png Kim Meng calls on technology leaders to make allyship an everyday practice that challenges bias, broadens opportunity, and fuels business success.
What screening still catches when the paperwork is perfect
An upcoming HRM Asia webinar, held in partnership with Veremark, examines how AI-generated applications are moving through screening processes across Asia-Pacific and which verification layers still hold.
Nearly eight in 10 employees in APAC use AI weekly. Only 7% of firms have scaled it
A new Asia Tech Alliance paper argues the region’s adoption lead will not translate into business results until organisations redesign the work itself and bring smaller employers along.
How ADP CEO Maria Black leads through uncertain times
CEO Maria Black, marking her 30th year at ADP, says that managing a workforce is only getting more complex, and so is HR’s role.
Fathers who take solo parental leave stay more involved at home, study finds
A five-year UK study of dual-career couples found that fathers who took sole responsibility for a baby during parental leave were still sharing childcare – and still shaping their working lives around it – years later.
Beyond execution: Why the AI revolution is scaling the human premium
As AI absorbs more of the execution in knowledge work, StarHub’s Tan Toi Chia argues the real transformation is happening in how work is designed – and in the human capabilities that never show up on a balance sheet.
AI is embedding faster than workforces are adapting, Kyndryl finds
AI adoption has surged, but confidence in workforce readiness has fallen. Kyndryl’s Dr Vishnu Nanduri explains why the gap is widening and what the organisations pulling ahead do differently.
AI reshapes hiring strategies as employers in Singapore expand cross-border talent search
New research finds employers in Singapore are widening their talent search across borders as AI reshapes hiring and doing so with less urgency than their global peers.
What generative AI can and cannot do for HR, according to a Cornell professor
Cornell Professor Chris Collins discusses how generative AI’s function in human resources has already arrived as data aggregation.
Compliance asks if it was done. Governance asks if you can prove it
A panel of legal and academic experts unpacked why governance is shifting from control to trust – and where AI is creating new accountability gaps for HR.
Gen Z’s AI anxiety isn’t really about AI
In conversations about leadership, Gen Z’s AI anxiety is not the issue. It is a symptom of an ever-widening leadership gap.
The growth plan is global. Is the payroll infrastructure?
Backed by a US$50 million investment from Apis Partners, BIPO is scaling its proprietary infrastructure to help organisations expand across borders.
In South-East Asia, AI moves at the speed leaders set – not the speed tools arrive
Accenture’s Marta Lajmi argues the Western playbook for AI adoption – access, training, incentives – does not translate to a region where employees wait for leaders to make change feel safe.
Different tools, same verdict: The AI question has moved on
JOBTOPGUN, Humanica and Darwinbox build different tools for different problems. At Thailand HR Tech 2026, all three drew the same line between what AI does and what only people can.
Where AI takes over, where humans stay – and where work simply changes
The era of intelligentisation demands specifics, not sweeping claims – on where AI helps, where it substitutes, and where human judgment must prevail.
For relocating families, a residence designed around the youngest guests
Family adjustment is one of the quieter determinants of whether an international assignment succeeds. A new limited-time apartment concept at Great World Residences turns its attention to the part of the household that is often hardest to settle: the children.
Early-career talent: The missing link in future-ready organisations
The path to becoming future-ready runs through early-career talent, but many organisations are deprioritising this talent pool.
Fixing the workplace, not just the symptoms: Inside HSBC Singapore’s structural shift to employee wellbeing
Head of People Mukul Anand discusses moving beyond traditional coping mechanisms to embed genuine psychological safety and inclusive design into everyday operations.
Thailand studies broader early retirement scheme to reshape public sector workforce
Thailand is reviewing a voluntary early retirement scheme that could include younger civil servants, combining workforce restructuring with reskilling to modernise the public sector.
Nearly 80 million ASEAN employees could see jobs reshaped by GenAI, ILO finds
Almost one in four employees across ASEAN are employed in occupations exposed to generative AI, although only a small proportion face the highest risk of disruption, an ILO study found.
AI harmony is a design problem, not a technology one
Worawat Suvagondha, PMAT President and Chief People Officer of Siam Commercial Bank, on redesigning work around people – and the one capability he tells his own HR team never to lose.
AI made work faster. It didn’t make it better.
Accenture’s global talent lead argues that most organisations have mistaken deploying AI for transforming with it – and a small group of “Talent Reinventors” is pulling away.
Malaysia studies post-maternity leave allowance as maternity leave complaints decline
Malaysia is considering a post-maternity leave allowance after employer compliance improved under the country’s mandatory 98-day maternity leave policy.
Nominations open for HRM Asia Readers’ Choice Awards 2026
Nominations are now open for HRM Asia Readers’ Choice Awards 2026, inviting organisations across Asia to showcase the HR solutions and services trusted by the region’s HR community.
Japan records third straight year of 5% wage growth as labour market remains resilient
Competitive pay remains firmly on Japan’s HR agenda, with employees securing wage increases above 5% for a third consecutive year.