HR & Education
Over 30% of businesses struggle with talent shortage: CPA
Over 30% of businesses struggle with talent shortage: CPA
                                                                                                 
                        
                          This is holding back companies’ digital transformation strategies.
                    
                                        
                    
                Foreign domestic helpers entering HK to undergo a ‘3+4’ quarantine starting August 12
                                                                                                 
                        
                          Under the model, workers will be quarantined for three nights in designated hotels.
                    
                                        
                    
                HK falls to 8th place in list of places with the highest ex-pat packages
                                                                                                 
                        
                          In Asia, the city also had the lowest rate of growth in pay and benefits for expatriates.
                    
                                        
                    
                Top 5 institutions where business and commerce majors want to work
                                                                                                 
                        
                          The Hong Kong SAR government is one of the five.
                    
                                        
                    
                Joblessness in HK down 4.7% from April to June
                                                                                                 
                        
                          The count of unemployed people went down by 12,800.
                    
                                        
                    
                Want to get hired? Internship experience is key: research
                                                                                                 
                        
                          About 90% of employers also say value internship experience more than educational background.
                    
                                        
                    
                Private sector employment dips 0.4% YoY in March
                                                                                                 
                        
                          This has pushed job vacancies to 53,700.
                    
                                        
                    
                Gov’t OKs $10b wage subsidies for 1.2 million workers
                                                                                                 
                        
                          It represented about 86% of all applications received from workers.
                    
                                        
                    
                Joblessness drops to 5.1% in May
                                                                                                 
                        
                          The total number of unemployed people stands at 191,400.
                    
                                        
                    
                About 86% of life sciences professionals get annual pay hike
                                                                                                 
                        
                          Those surveyed got 6% to 10% increments.
                    
                                        
                    
                Majority of full-time workers received pay hike: study
                                                                                                 
                        
                          The remaining workers had unchanged pay or reduced salary.
                    
                                        
                    
                Over 95% workers at risk of burnout due to unfair treatment by peers
                                                                                                 
                        
                          Four in 10 employees said they experience unequal treatment.
                    
                                        
                    
                Overworked? Study finds that 72% of Hong Kong employees are unhappy
                                                                                                 
                        
                          Employees in Hong Kong work an average of 41 hours each week.
                    
                                        
                    
                Work-life balance beats salary as top employee demand
                                                                                                 
                        
                          Over 6 in 10 workers want jobs with work-life balance.
                    
                                        
                    
                Here's why more women want work-life balance than men
                                                                                                 
                        
                          More than 6 in 10 women demand work-life balance.
                    
                                        
                    
                Unemployment rate rises to 5.4% from February to April
                                                                                                 
                        
                          The total number of unemployed people stands at 206,100.
                    
                                        
                    
                More than 2 in 5 Hongkongers scared of losing their job seek career shift
                                                                                                 
                        
                          This marks a 9% rise from the survey in 2021.