22 February 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Malaysia was keen on pushing SMEs to be digitally-enabled and technologically equipped to meet the demands of an increasingly digital world, and was set to achieve these goals by the year 2022. According to SME Corp, digitalisation was to come, given that all SME will shift to cashless payment.  

Fast forward to now, 5,634 applications from SMEs have been received for the SME Business Digitalization Grant initiative, which 90% of the applications have been approved as of end of last year. SMEs in Malaysia are evidently harnessing the power of technology to survive. However, the increased online activities also open loopholes for cybercriminals. 

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.