From low cost to smart choice: How AI is reshaping global business services
Deloitte’s Kris Kabasinskas and Dave Turk on what an AI-driven operating model asks of the people include global business services, and of the HR leaders responsible for them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From Learning Outcomes to Business Outcomes: How AI Is Transforming Enterprise Learning
This exclusive, invitation-only executive roundtable brings together 15 senior HR, Learning & Development and Talent leaders to explore how AI can transform enterprise learning, strengthen workforce capabilities and drive measurable business outcomes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Singapore makes one in 10 of the world’s chips. Talent depth is another question
Waiting for a specialised role to fall vacant before developing the skills to fill it no longer works, says Lam Research’s Andrew Goh. The South-East Asia head on hiring for technologies that outpace their own qualifications.
From decision to direction: Where good strategies lose their way
Having good people is not the same as having an organisation that can act on its decisions, speakers argued in AsiaHRM’s Governance Series.
Where do senior cyber professionals come from when the junior jobs disappear?
AI is absorbing the junior work that senior cybersecurity professionals once learned on. Fortinet’s Jess Ng on what that means for the talent pipeline and for retention.
Workplace wellbeing: The awareness gap has closed. The execution gap persists
Although the data shows that workplace wellbeing has become an accepted business priority, organisations struggle to translate it into measurable outcomes.
The frontline is HR’s biggest AI blind spot
A lot of AI is built around knowledge employees, but 80% of employees are on the frontline. How do you reach them?
Tourism offers jobs, not careers. Mandai Wildlife Group is trying to prove otherwise
Mandai Wildlife Group has put competency-based pay and structured pathways behind frontline roles. Two long-serving employees describe what that has looked like in practice.
Should people grow the organisation, or should the organisation grow its people?
Two Hong Kong practitioners took opposite starting positions on the same budget line – and both conceded that where an organisation sits in its cycle shapes the answer.
First the layoffs, then the rehiring: AI’s expensive round trip
From Ford’s assembly line to Klarna’s call centres, organisations that bet on AI over experience are quietly buying it back, often for more than they saved.
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.
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.
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.
Leadership Awareness Program: An Exclusive 3-Day Workshop by Aspire
This exclusive, invitation-only 3-day Leadership Growth Experience is designed for 20 senior HR leaders. Through experiential learning and guided reflection, participants will strengthen self-awareness, uncover blind spots, and develop the clarity and confidence to lead with greater impact.