7 years ago050According to a recent study by Randstad, over a third of employees (37%) in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia are planning on leaving their companies in the coming six months. While not all of them may actually see it through, that’s a very high percentage of employees who aren’t completely satisfied.
If the number surprises you,...
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83% of HR leaders believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics
…but only 37% use data and analytics to make people decisions
92% struggle to gain strategic insight from people data
17% of mid-sized organizations now employ a Chief People Officer to put people data at the heart of their...
7 years ago060The average human attention span is down from 12 seconds in 2000 to 8.25 seconds in 2015, according to research from Statistic Brain carried out last year. This is bad news for bosses. Unproductive employees lose businesses money – and distractions are a sure-fire way to veer your workforce off the path of productivity.
But what...
7 years ago073Time Inc (TIME.N) said on Tuesday it is eliminating 300 positions, or 4 percent of its workforce, through layoffs and buyouts, according to an internal memo reviewed by Reuters.
The cuts were being made as the New York-based media company, which publishes dozens of magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated and Fortune, is looking...
7 years ago062In central Bulgaria, in the town of Gabrovo, which prides itself on being an international capital of humor, Iva Kaneva wasn't joking when it came to programming.
As a child, she drew her first triangles in Basic, her eyes riveted to the computer screen like a NASA control-room engineer zeroing in on a lunar approach. "I was...
7 years ago082Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber, is stepping aside indefinitely from the company he cofounded. He cited the death of his mother, who died in a boating accident in May, as the reason he was taking time off.
In a company-wide memo to staff, Kalanick wrote, "It's hard to put a timeline on this - it may be shorter or longer than we might...
7 years ago066Politics is a divisive issue but, occasionally, everyone, regardless of the ideology they support, unanimously agrees.
It seems the British public and even her own party members are in agreement about the fate of our current Prime Minister. A snap survey of 1,500 members of the Conservative Party on Friday found that 60% wanted...
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Coleen Highfield, Head of HR Operations at MoneyGram International, tells us what senior HR decision-makers can learn from Diana of Themyscira.
“With the recent changes in legislation forcing companies to disclose their gender pay gap, equality in the workplace is a topical issue. The City is filled with smart and successful...
7 years ago067Amid ongoing internal crises and changes by the company board, Uber has experienced the departure of one of its most prominent senior executives.
The departure of Emil Michael, Uber's SVP of business and a right-hand man to CEO Travis Kalanick, was confirmed by a company spokesperson to CNN Tech. With his departure, Uber is now...
7 years ago0139The CEO of Boxed Wholesale - a venture-backed company that raised $100 million in 2016 - recently shared why he offers generous fringe benefits to the company's over 200 employees.
Speaking to CNBC, Chieh Huang said, "After leading my first company, I realized that it doesn't matter how powerful or big an organization is. If all of...
7 years ago066General Electric Co said CEO Jeff Immelt would step down, capping a 16-year term that included steering the conglomerate through the financial crisis but saw its shares losing nearly a third of their value on worries about the company's growth.
GE said John Flannery, the head of its healthcare unit, would replace Immelt as CEO,...
7 years ago061Alight, the former outsourcing business of Aon plc, re-emerges as a standalone market leader with renewed focus and possibilities
Today, Alight Solutions announced the next chapter in its more than 25-year history as the leading technology-enabled provider of benefits administration and cloud-based HR solutions, with a new name...