Author: kiatassociates

kiatassociates May 18, 2020 0 Comments

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 […]

kiatassociates May 17, 2020 0 Comments

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 […]

kiatassociates May 11, 2020 0 Comments

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 […]