Kuala Lumpur, 22 February 2021 – Schneider Electric, the leader of digital transformation in energy management and automation, has appointed Yoon Young Kim as its new Cluster President of Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei. He previously served as the Cluster President for Vietnam and Cambodia for four years. 

Kim brings with him 20 years of experience in energy management and lighting sectors spanning several industry segments across different zone(s) such as South America, Europe, North America, Asia, Africa, Russia, and the Middle East.

Kuala Lumpur, 22 February 2021 - WorkSmartly, an end-to-end digital human capital solution that is designed specifically for HR-processes throughout the employees’ work life cycle recently launched their new and upgraded system, the Q-Series. Featuring a new and improved interface, WorkSmartly, which is the pioneer of cloud-based HR-solution provider, made the Q-Series lighter and faster to load, making it more accessible to the majority of the workforce who are working from home.

HR-based software and solutions are not new, but with COVID-19 rendering working from home a necessity and probably a norm for a long time to come, digitising the entire HR-processes and workflow has become a necessity, especially when face-to-face meetings and regular touchpoints between employees are not always possible. An end-to-end HR-system can be the solution to streamline a majority of internal and external processes, however, most offerings in the market now only cater to certain aspects of the HR-processes and have not been optimised to the vastly changing needs of the workforce. 

KUALA LUMPUR, 22 February 2021 – Business Events Council Malaysia (BECM) Chairman, Alan Pryor, urges the Malaysian government to continue to enhance more active engagement with the business events industry, in order to advance mutual economic recovery goals and strategies to elevate the city’s and the country’s destination proposition to emerge as the regional leader as part of its Covid-19 recovery plan and to revive the Business Events (BE) sector.

In a recent sentiment sweep conducted by BECM to understand the current state of Malaysian venues since the pandemic began in 2020, it was found that due to inability to operate, 100% of the venues experienced at least a dramatic 85% decrease in total events resulting in minimum of 75% plunge in overall 2020 revenue compared to the previous year, causing their biggest concerns involving financial challenges surrounding employee wages, building utility and maintenance payments.