PETALING JAYA: Malaysia is not ready to implement a four-day work week as this will result in higher costs for companies, say businesses. Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers president Tan Sri Soh Thian Lai (pic) said most employers, especially the small and medium enterprises (SMEs), were not ready to adopt a… Source link
Read More »Malaysian SME recovering from manpower woes: BrioHR.com index
PETALING JAYA: Malaysian small and medium enterprises (SME) are showing positive signs of recovery, tackling the labour shortage caused by the “great resignation” due to the Covid-19 pandemic, BrioHR.com’s SME Employment Index shows. BrioHR.com co-founder and CEO Benjamin Croc (pix) said the index tracks health of employment and factors of SME in the aggregated data of 14,000 employees… Source link
Read More »Sensata Technologies Expands Manufacturing Presence in Malaysia
Sensata Technologies, a leading manufacturer of sensors, electrical protection components and sensor-rich solutions, recently held a… Source link
Read More »Getting Ready for those Business Black Swans
To prepare for future disasters, the Malaysian government should roll out a national response plan to help smaller businesses tide through the storm. Covid. Tropical depressions. Landslides. Massive flooding across western peninsular Malaysia. These are just some of the events that have happened to Malaysian communities in the last few years. What will the country face… Source link
Read More »SME productivity & collaboration tools with cybersecurity
[This is a sponsored article with Microsoft Malaysia.] There are many things to consider when it comes to running a business, such as having a solid business plan, marketing, and understanding your customers. A reliable cybersecurity solution is also equally as important too. This is because the number of cyberattacks has increased by 238% since the start of the pandemic. Nowadays, there are… Source link
Read More »Pantas, Funding Societies launch finance solutions for SMEs
Provides SMEs with easy accessibility to financial safe net Reduce processing time for invoices, offer competitive interest rates Fintech startup Pantas has partnered with Funding Societies to launch an automated invoice financing facility for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. In a joint statement, the parties said this partnership aims to provide SMEs with an… Source link
Read More »Singapore and Malaysia Reunite, If Only for Cake
They came to hug parents, hold loved ones and cradle babies they made but hadn’t met. They loaded up on cakes, grabbed cheap massages and pumped gas. After two years of tight restrictions, the border between Singapore and Malaysia, one of the world’s busiest crossings, has finally reopened. In the process, a key export resumed to the city-state’s larger neighbor about half a mile… Source link
Read More »5 firms in Malaysia that redefined experiential marketing
Customers are now seeking better experiences more than ever before in this rapidly evolving digital age. According to a study by Salesforce, 68% of marketing leaders claim that their companies are increasingly competing on the basis of customer experience. Along with stellar customer experience, experiential marketing is key to how brands should differentiate themselves from the… Source link
Read More »BUSINESS AFTER THE BIG RESET
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in the closure of over 150,000 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia, according to the Small and Medium Enterprises Association of Malaysia. The scale of the disruption brought SME leaders to relook at their business to see how they can embrace new opportunities… Source link
Read More »Quick, cheap multi-currency overseas SME payments
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