Singapore – Real wage growth climbs 1.6% in 2021 (Business Times Singapore)

Real wage growth in Singapore was up 1.6% in 2021, slightly higher than the previous year at 1.4% but still lower than the 3.3% recorded in 2019, reports the Business Times, citing data from the Ministry of Manpower. Despite rising prices, wage growth in 2021 still exceeded inflation, meaning that wages...

Japan – Government to invest in reskilling workers (Asia News Network)

To promote labour mobility in growth fields, Japan’s government will offer workers reskilling opportunities and help with finding new jobs based on a package of measures worth JPY 400 billion (USD 3.14 billion) over three years, reports Asia News Network. The government aims to help about 1 million...

India – Quess Corp fourth quarter revenue growth driven by General Staffing business

Quess Corp. (QUESS:NSI), a Bengaluru, India-based staffing provider, reported revenue yesterday after the markets closed of INR 37.92 billion (USD 488.3 million) for the fourth quarter ended 31 March 2022, up 26.1% when compared to the same period last year.

Revenue growth was driven by the General Staffing...

Japan – CareerIndex acquires ContractS Co.

Careerindex, a Japan-based company which operates a number of recruitment sites, announced that it has acquired ContractS Co., a company which provides a cloud-based contract management system.

Also based in Japan, ContractS will become a subsidiary of CareerIndex Inc.

The ContractS CLM platform integrates...

New Zealand – Number of filled jobs rise slightly in April

Filled jobs across New Zealand for the month of April 2022 rose by 0.6% to a total of 2.29 million filled jobs, compared to March 2022, according to research from Statistics New Zealand. The 0.6% increase is also an uptick from the 0.3% rise seen in April 2021.

By industry, the largest change in the number...

Japan – Nearly one in three graduates quit first job within 3 years (Nippon)

Almost 30% of university graduates in Japan had left their initial employment within the first three years, reports Nippon.com, citing research from The Japanese Trade Union Confederation. The study found that the top reason (cited by 33.9% of graduates) for choosing their first company after graduating...

India – Mumbai hiring activity on the rise with average salaries up 18% in Q4

The Indian city of Mumbai, recorded a 41% increase in hiring activity in fiscal Q4 2022 when compared to fiscal Q4 2021, according to research from Naukri.

At the same time, the city also recorded an 18% increase in salary, which is higher than the rest of the metro cities in India which recorded an average...

Singapore – More than half of employees say they sacrifice personal life for career progress

Over half, or 65%, of employees in Singapore believe that they need to sacrifice personal time and work-life balance to achieve their financial and career goals, and over half of those interviewed said they intend to do so, according to a survey from Indeed Singapore.

According to Indeed’s survey, there...

India – Info Edge invests in US-based WSO2

Indian job board Info Edge announced that it has invested in digital transformation technology provider WSO2 via its subsidiary RedStart Labs.

Info Edge joins lead investor Goldman Sachs which completed the first tranche of the Series E funding in November 2021. Info Edge, through its RedStart subsidiary,...

Japan – Government to require listed companies to disclose gender gap (The Mainichi)

A panel to the Japanese financial regulator gave the green light this week for a proposal requiring listed companies to disclose any gender gaps in their workforce in line with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's aim of addressing Japan's gender pay inequality, one of the worst among developed countries,...