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In a Downturn, Include Your Employees in Cost-Cutting Decisions
Almost every business is reorganizing its operations in response to the economic slowdown caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Often, companies take a top-down approach to resizing based on a limited set of data such as earnings forecasts and competitive benchmarking. But following this playbook usually results in “wrong sizing” and demoralized employees. Instead, leaders should…
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What Good Business Looks Like
As COVID-19 continues its advance, it is showing that much that we believed was wrong. Things that seemed impossible a few months ago have suddenly come to pass. As it turns out, thousands of businesses, universities, and other organizations can pivot to a totally virtual environment in days, not years. Societies divided by politics and…
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What is EPF i-Saraan and how does it benefit you?
We have heard a lot about contributing to Employees Provident Fund (EPF) – a compulsory retirement fund for those employed set up by our Malaysian government, whereby employers will deduct a percentage of 7%-11% from employees’ salary while contributing additional part of 12%-19% to this retirement fund as a benefit to their employees. As the…
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Life After COVID-19: #NewNormal
The start of the year 2020 is the beginning of a new order; a new normal. The world is in panic over a pandemic. The coronavirus disease is leaving behind permanent changes on how we live our daily lives and posing new challenges on how we do business but the economic impact is yet to…
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Are You And Your Office Ready To Get Back Post-MCO? — Dr Amar Singh-HSS
So you’ve got your mask and you’ve got your hand sanitisers. And you have prepared by learning about safe physical distancing, hand washing, dealing with contaminated surfaces and to keep away from crowds. But there’s much more to prepare for before returning to the office. The lockdown (MCO) has done a very good job of…
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The effect of Covid-19 crisis on the global economy
The COVID-19 crisis is a systemic shock to the global economy that has affected all organisations. The long-term impact on the global economy and our working lives at the time of writing remains impossible to calibrate precisely. Nonetheless, there is a clear narrative from ACCA’s global data of the impact of COVID-19 so far on…
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Extension of Deadlines due to Movement Control Order (MCO)
Following the Movement Control Order (MCO) due to Covid-19 in Malaysia which has started since 18 March 2020, the regulatory bodies for businesses in Malaysia have approved extension on important deadlines on lodgement of business documents. Financial Year End EOT for lodgement of documents 30 September 2019 31 July 2020 31 October 2019 31 August…
