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Prepare for flexibility - it's where the law may be heading
By Contributor Legal Case studies for employers
Work Hours
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Flexible Work Hours
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Flexible Work Arrangements
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Generation Y
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Part-time Work
As anyone who works in Hong Kong will tell you, the average working day in our city for many people is longer than in other parts of the world, writes Kathleen Healy and Laura Chapman.
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HK employers good sports in backing fitness
By Darius Musni Job Market Trend Report
Randstad
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Mental Health
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Survey
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MTR Corporation
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Improving Productivity
Most employees in Hong Kong say their employers actively support a healthy lifestyle and staying mentally fit, according to a recent survey, writes Darius Musni.
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Flexibility helps boost loyalty and productivity
By Chris Davis Job Market Trend Report
Flexible Work Hours
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Work Hours
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Senior Executives
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Regus
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Survey
While the issue of fixed working hours continues to provoke lively debate in Hong Kong, the concept of flexible hours is becoming more appealing to senior managers, writes Chris Davis.
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All together as ‘one family’
By Wong Yat-hei HR Focus
Hotel
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Hotel Industry
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Cosmopolitan Hotel Hong Kong
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Business Women
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Family-friendly
Anita Chan says that a new HR initiative at the Cosmo hotel chain is helping strengthen family bonds ...
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Stand-ins rise to the occasion
By Contributor Career Guidance and Counselling
Hays
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Temporary
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Improving Productivity
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Stress
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Work-life Balance
This week, we continue to look at how employers can benefit from effectively using temporary assignments in their workforce, writes Marc Burrage.
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No age group knows it all
By Anthony Thompson HR Focus
HR Yearbook 2012
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Michael Page International
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Cross-cultural
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Generation Gap
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Generation Y
A workplace made up of employees from a diverse range of age groups is commonplace in organisations around the ...
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Slaying the ‘creativity-killers’
By Nick Walker Job fairs and Events
Events Watch
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Improving Productivity
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Creativity
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Event
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China Speakers Agency
To employ an oft-used term from his native Australia, Andrew Grant “rocked up” into Hong Kong last month, impressing the audience at the “Who Killed Creativity?” seminar – co-sponsored by Classified Post and China Speakers Agency – where ...
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The business of social change
By Nick Walker Career Books Recommendations
Improving Productivity
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Business
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Journalist
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Writer
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Teamwork
When Productive Workplaces was first published in 1987, it made a huge impact on Ronald Reagan's resurgent America. But by the onset of the 21st century, business paradigms had shifted sufficiently to ...
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Bums on office seats are not always good for bottom line
By Billy Clarke Job Market Trend Report
Regus
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Survey
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Improving Productivity
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Morale Boosters
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Staff Morale
Employees can probably feel less guilty about tardiness or web-surfing during office hours. At least that's the implication of the results from ...
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