How one can make good in bad times
From multinationals with businesses spanning the globe to small mom-and-pop establishments that only serve the local community, enterprises are continuously changing to adapt to new economic conditions.
In many cases, such change invariably results in these companies optimising their workforce, requiring many employees to seek their fortunes elsewhere.
For instance, Google’s parent company Alphabet has reduced its workforce by 12,000 jobs since 2023 while Apple cut about 100 jobs from its online services group last year.
But retrenchment is not necessarily the end of the world. For instance, former human resource manager Chris Chan and ex-telco specialist Muhammad Azhari Ishak, 42, have shown that such life events could open the door to bigger things or better opportunities.
Chan was serving as global organisation development head for a…
