Lee Quane
Regional Director - Asia
ECA International
Lee will join speaker Janet Chiang and moderator Avrom Goldberg for the first ATMA webinar scheduled for 9:00 AM SGT on August 3.
Lee has been based at ECA International’s Asia operations since 2003 and has been Regional Director since 2009.
Lee works with major organisations in the Asia-Pacific region, providing advice and support in the field of Compensation and Benefits and International Assignment Management, thereby ensuring that ECA’s clients can respond effectively to challenges they face in a rapidly changing globalised business environment. Lee has led multiple projects assisting companies who have either just set up their international assignment operations or established organisations looking to update and ensure that their policies remain competitive.
Since taking over ECA’s Asia operations, Lee has been heavily involved in the establishment of ECA as one of the most authoritative HR data and solutions providers in the region. Lee has spoken at several international HR seminars and contributes to industry publications in the region regularly.
The first ATMA webinar scheduled for 9:00 AM SGT on August 3 will focus on the issues most top of mind for everyone in the talent mobility industry. Titled "The Summer of Discontent", this first webinar panel will discuss how todays challenges of inflation, transportation disruptions and shortages in supply chains are impacting relocations in Asia alongside best practices for mitigating them.
Register to attend the event, or to receive a recording.
ATMA was formed to Empower Talent Mobility in Asia. This webinar series is part of our commitment to Education and Community which represent two of the four Pillars of our not-for-profit organization.
Janet Chiang
Program Manager, Talent Mobility APAC
Netflix
Janet Chiang will join moderator Avrom Goldberg for the first ATMA webinar scheduled for 9:00 AM SGT on August 3.
Janet has extensive years of Talent Mobility experience in the Asia Pacific region. Her career covers roles in professional services and in-house in the Manufacturing and Entertainment industries. She has great passion in driving excellence in users' experience.
The first webinar scheduled for 9:00 AM SGT on August 3 will focus on the issues most top of mind for everyone in the talent mobility industry. Titled "The Summer of Discontent", this first webinar will be moderated by launch committee member, Avrom Goldberg of Weichert Workforce Mobility.
Avrom will guide our panel's conversation as they discuss how todays challenges of inflation, transportation disruptions and shortages in supply chains are impacting relocations in Asia alongside best practices for mitigating them.
The strength and success of an alliance that includes a wide variety of companies across a region the size of Asia relies on membership with diverse backgrounds, unique perspectives, and different locations.
Our Launch Committee members mirror that ideal and, while standing firmly behind ATMA’s mission, vision and pillars, find personal meaning in each. We asked them to share their individual views and to permit us to publish their profiles in this series.
The world’s largest Free-Trade Agreement is designed to increase job opportunities through the market-integration of the member countries. A report from China for Q1 2022 states a 6.9% year-over-year increase in China’s trade with RCEP members, which represented both import and export business.
RCEP came into effect for the initial 10 countries on 1 January. Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, China, Japan, Lao PDR, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam were joined in February by Republic of Korea and by Malaysia in March. The remaining members, who include all members of ASEAN will join officially following completion of the process.
In addition to improving market access to goods and services for businesses, we hope RCEP will echo ASEAN’s work toward ensuring migration policies that support, sustain and protect cross-border and migrant workers.
We are on the final step of formally establishing the organization as a non-profit registered in Hong Kong. Within weeks, the company will be a reality and we will be ready to move onto the next steps.
Following the legal registration, our next tasks will be to open up membership to those who match our community’s vision and mission and to enable registration for our first webinar.
“Members are actively involved or interested in talent management, recruitment, relocation, global mobility or any form of employer-sponsored or managed moves.”
To find out first when the membership registration begins, please register here or you can also follow our LinkedIn page.
The inaugural ATMA monthly webinar series begins in July and we will publish the date on the Events section of our home page as well as LinkedIn.
Employers are switching from a reactive to a more pro-active process for sourcing and engaging talent. The goal has changed from filling vacant positions to strategically thinking about how to ensure talent will be available in the future as positions open.
This recent article “New Recruitment Practices in Asia Pacific” from the HR Exchange Network offers five emerging ways to build up talent capacity.
Relocation benefits were not mentioned, but they make a strong partnership with recruitment especially as the search for talent goes beyond the city location and sometimes the country. Relocation benefits can be used to improve the company onboarding program by helping with the personal move needs of newly hired employees, paving the way for a great start to the relationship. Relocation and expatriate benefits also help ensure focus is kept on the job by removing some of the stress involved with a new location, finding where to live or which schools are best for children.
As an example of using relocation benefits as part of the recruitment offer, The Asian Development Bank publishes their list of employee benefits, including relocation support, on their websites career section.
The pandemic accelerated everything, including cross-border e-commerce.
Chinese cross-border companies had a bumpy, yet in some cases meteoric rise in business that seems poised to continue. Not without risks, as outlined in this post by SixthTone.com the market is evolving to create both winners and losers.
Once dominated by Amazon and Walmart there are several options for online stores to reach markets in Asia, Europe and around the world. Diversification of on-line store locations to balance risk now include eBay, AliExpress, and Wish as well as Shopee and Lazada.
Shenzhen, known as the "Cross-Border Capital" is mentioned for actions taken by the government to further expand options.
"...Commerce bureau issued a notice offering financial support to cross-border e-commerce enterprises that develop overseas markets through independent sales channels: 2 million yuan for each project, as well as up to 3 million yuan in awards."
Read the full article here: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1009763/as-amazon-changes-course%2C-chinas-sellers-shop-for-options
Employers Need Workers, What do Workers Need?
As the pandemic moves into an endemic phase, the original reason for remote and hybrid work also retires. There are real concerns about maintaining an engaged, inventive and productive team without the interaction that comes with close physical proximity. Many employees, on the other hand are unwilling to return to the strict office culture.
Techwire Asia just published an article exploring the topic as well as a report by Poly Research whose results showed the relationship between retention of existing employees through the lens of hybrid work:
Exiting employees disclosed that the top reasons for leaving are tied to their employer's approach to hybrid work:
