Korean online job-seeking platform Jobplanet said on Thursday that millennials in Indonesia were becoming more interested in working for start-up companies, especially in the IT industry.
Jobplanet chief product officer Kemas Antonius said young people were willing to work for tech start-ups because they offered dynamic work environments, good career prospects, and attractive employee benefits and compensation.
“The IT industry is booming now because of mushrooming tech start-ups. Previously, when young people looked for jobs, they [targeted] established private or state-owned companies,” he said in a discussion in Jakarta.
Jobplanet’s survey from November 2015 to October 2016 of 470,000 employees across the country revealed that mobile commerce start-up Sale Stock topped the list of best companies….
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In February, after almost two years worth of six-hour workdays, nurses at the Svartedalens elderly care facility in Gothenburg, Sweden went back to eight hour shifts—despite recently published research showing the benefits of the shortened workdays.
The City of Gothenburg didn’t extend the experiment in part because funding ran out. It cost about 12 million krona ($1.3 million) to hire the 17 extra staff members needed to fill the gaps created by shorter work hours. The city had only budgeted for two years, and legislators said it would be too expensive to implement the project across the ….
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In this digital era, people are now able to work outside their cubicles. The trend toward a flexible workstyle has grown rapidly, especially thanks to the popularity of co-working spaces, which have been popping up across Jakarta.
Apart from improving creativity and increasing productivity, below are the benefits of co-working according to dailysocial.id:
Networking and collaboration
Co-working can be perceived as a time to meet new people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, which will help expand your professional network as well as create new opportunities to collaborate with one another.
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A recent survey by career site Jobplanet suggests that despite the low number of female workers, companies and industries in Indonesia could be regarded as female-friendly.
According to the site’s survey on satisfactory levels in company culture, career paths and work-life balance, industries like information technology (IT), banking and finance, and institutions like the government, social agencies and nongovernmental organizations, scored high in the three aspects.
“It shows that these three industries could be considered the most friendly industries toward women; they provide the chance for them to develop their careers and potentials,” said Jobplanet chief product officer Kemas Antonius in…
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Whether you’ve caught the common cold, a burning fever or the occasional sore throat, it is better to skip work rather than infect your co-workers with germs.
Dr. Peter McGough, medical director at the University of Washington health clinic in the United States, said, as quote by the Seattle Times, that “if you have a fever over 38 degrees Celsius, or if you’re aching all over, it is a good sign to stay home”.
Going to the office when you are sick is called “contagious presenteeism”, and, according to …..
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Office politics is a fact of life. So the sooner you accept it, and learn how to play it, the better.
Trust me, it doesn’t matter where you go, there will always be office politics. It would be best for you to know how to deal with it like a champ.
The term politics generally has a bad association in our minds. Break down the word and you get poly, or “many”, and tics, or “blood-sucking parasites”. One could argue that some government politics can be defined in just that fashion.
Even with my small team of staff, or when I deal with clients, there is always some….
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Aulia Halimatussadiah
Co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Zetta Media Network
I was in Moscow, Russia, speaking in a women and technology panel at the Asia Forum when someone in the audience asked me: Who do I think is the most creative leader, a man or a woman?
It hit me: We’ve been connecting leadership traits with gender, when they are supposed to be tied to feminine and masculine energy. Whoever holds more feminine energy in them, can be more creative than the others. Having said that, a man can be more creative than a woman if he has more feminine energy.
Before we go further, I need to explain a little bit more about feminine and masculine energy.
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Intan Tanjung
The Jakarta Post
Though many chase the freedom associated with going freelance, few can bear the struggles of the first few years. Here are some things you should know before quitting your job to go freelance.
Do it because you love it
Don’t give up your day job just because you want to avoid a problem at work. Being a freelancer is a hard thing as you’ll face many uncertainties that can wear on your emotional wellbeing.
But it is a very different story if you do it for the sake of love, because you will follow your curiosity and won’t feel the pressure of generating some income.
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