Dr. Bonnie Cheuk is a strategic, hands-on, business & results-driven executive with strong digital transformation expertise. Originally from Hong Kong, she has spent more than 20 years working in for companies across the globe. She joined AstraZeneca as a senior director, a member of a multi-disciplinary digital transformation leadership team to reimagine the drug development
Month: September 2020
The Italian government extended and updated layoff prohibitions, renewed employer wage support, and provided other emergency workplace measures under a pandemic-related decree issued late this summer. The Aug. 14 decree also amends rules on fixed-term employment contracts and temporarily exempts certain employers from making social security contributions, legal experts noted. “Those provisions, worth in excess
In August, the U.K. government told the working public that they should return to their workplaces if they were “COVID secure” and suggested, if they didn’t, they might be first in line for layoffs. But in late September, in response to the worrying rise in the spread of the virus, the public was told to work from
The future of work as we know it is changing right before our eyes every day. Technology is playing a key role in the way work gets done and evolving the roles humans play within the organization. New roles require new capabilities, which means that one of the biggest challenges facing HR and learning and
The Black Lives Matter movement has led employers to reevaluate workplace diversity at their organizations, including being more thoughtful about recruiting from a broader range of talent. “An effective diversity recruitment program involves taking a close look at every step of the recruitment process, from sourcing and recruitment marketing, to screening and interview practices, to
France enacted a new policy in July, giving employers strong incentives to hire young people in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic, which has inflicted devastating economic damage. It’s called the “1 young person, 1 solution” plan. The purpose of the $7.97 billion plan is “to support youth employment and avoid this generation being sacrificed
Across the world there are thousands of college campuses full of soon-to-graduate students eager to enter the workforce. Recruiters can enrich their candidate pipeline by forging relations with this demographic. University or campus recruiting refers to the strategies for sourcing, connecting with and hiring college students and recent graduates for internships and entry-level positions. While
The best companies for dads in 2020 have a few things in common, such as parental leave that is gender-neutral, gradual phase-back from parental leave and affordable child care, according to Working Mother Research Institute, which compiles the annual list. “Millennial dads continue to be outspoken about wanting to be involved parents and needing the
For many organizations, shifting to e-learning was an ongoing project before COVID-19. There were tests to be done, formats to consider, analysis to be conducted and ultimately decisions on what comes next to be made. But what COVID-19 has done is force organizations to abandon strategy in the interest of acting swiftly, whether it was
For most U.K. employers that operate a Jan. 1 to Dec. 31 holiday year, there are around 15 weeks of the current holiday year left, in which to encourage the workforce to take their accrued holiday entitlement. Special rules were introduced earlier this year that allow workers to carry over any unused holiday entitlement if COVID-19 meant
COVID-19 has sparked a great deal of change in organizations around the world, so much so that simply saying that has almost become an exhausted phrase. For learning and development, the implications were clear. In-person instruction is, for the time being, dead. The fallout from that is that training efforts have to be taken online,
Performance check-ins (or continuous performance management) are a series of regular conversations between managers and employees about work, progress and goals throughout the year. Depending on the organisation or individual, they can take place weekly, monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly. This series of conversations play a huge part in the success of many high-performing organisations. The multiple benefits
A new federal decree has been implemented for the UAE private sector to amend the existing leave provisions of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Labor Law No. 8 of 1980 to include parental leave. The measure is part of the continuing drive to align private-sector benefits with those available in the public sector in order
A well-crafted career page has the power to win over and convert qualified candidates. However, in order for that to be the case, it requires careful oversight and to be recognized for what it truly is—a valuable tool in the recruiting tool belt. Today there’s no shortage of creative and engaging ways for companies to
Are Generational Categories Meaningful Distinctions for Workforce Management?, a recent Consensus Study Report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies Press, 2020), looked at the research on generational differences in work-related attitudes and behaviors. The purpose of the report was to provide a consensus of expert opinion on the quality
In late August 2020, the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs published new COVID-19 occupational health and safety rules, which specify already existing occupational health and safety standards. In light of this, employers should review their current back-to-work set of rules, if any, or implement corresponding policies as soon as possible, bearing in
As our annual corporate learning event unfolds, there is naturally a lot of talk about learning and development’s place in the business and the ways in which HR can use it as an instrument to drive performance. As HR and L&D begin the conversation of how to help people generate better business results, while at
Data show that Black attorneys account for less than 5 percent of associates and less than 2 percent of partners at law firms. Those stats have stayed about the same over the last decade. Lloyd Freeman, a partner and chief diversity officer at Archer & Greiner in Haddonfield, N.J., spoke to SHRM Online about the
The success or failure of any organization is largely a function of that organization’s leadership. In modern organizations, leaders make critical decisions about how to allocate personnel and resources and the cumulative sum of those decisions is reflected in the organization’s performance. Among publicly traded companies, the CEO accounts for 17-30% of the variance in
Remote work brings the office online and when it does, it brings all the realities of the office with it. You might be tempted to think that because in-person interactions are non-existent in this new remote work landscape, harassment dwindles with it as there are no opportunities for inappropriate touching and fewer opportunities for the