Workforce

If you’re looking for a job, your first step may be to peruse job boards. While it’s a tried-and-true method, a growing number of jobs are “hidden,” as more companies move to employee referrals and professional networks for sourcing qualified candidates more quickly, according to a study by...

Japan's famously hard-working salarymen — and, increasingly, salarywomen — are to be encouraged to reduce the amount of time they spend in the office environment as part of the government's initiative to improve the nation's work-life balance. The recently unveiled annual economic policy guidelines...

Grameenphone retrenched 159 employees on Sunday after they refused to accept its voluntary retirement scheme (VRS). One hundred employees left Grameenphone in 2020 when the carrier urged its redundant employees to leave the organisation under the scheme. The operator revived the...

Few people face more uncertainty than recent college graduates. This year, which many of them spent at home taking classes online, they not only have to contend with the standard questions most young graduates face—where should I work? How do I get a job?—but they have to...

When lay-offs and redundancies are on the rise, it generally follows that people trying to make a living from home, working for themselves, or over the Internet are on the increase as well. So it stands to reason that as we speak, thousands of people are sitting...

During the week, most of us spend half our waking hours at work. And a lot of us see it as a struggle, or at least a bore, looking forward to the weekend when we can do more worthwhile things. But what if your job itself was...

Remote work won't change just where we work, but also when we work. Thanks to the fantastic news that distribution of vaccines has begun, the end of the pandemic is in sight. Changes wrought by Covid-19 are nowhere near...

Since the dawn of the fourth industrial revolution, there has been a growing concern over job loss. Creating jobs in the industrial economy has been the primary means for increasing per capita income, and addressing poverty. Globalisation of manufacturing and service value chain has been a blessing...

Experts at a webinar on Saturday said policymakers should put extra emphasis on education, youth employment, poverty, and gender issues in the 8th five-year plan considering changes in the sectors caused by the pandemic. They also called for improved and latest statistics before implementing the policy to...

The real minimum wage in Bangladesh saw a negative 5.9 per cent growth between 2010 and 2019 despite a 5.8 per cent growth in productivity, making it the largest decrease among the Asia Pacific nations, according to a recent study of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Called...