To the fresh graduate and first-time jobseeker, employers often seem to send out confusing and contradictory signals as to what they want in a worker. Should you be independent or a team-player? Should you be able to make decisions, or follow orders? Should y...

Malaysians ho and hum about our embarrassing work ethic, whether it's our ‘goyang kaki’ apathy, ‘tak apa’ shrugging-off of responsibility, and ‘bukan kerja saya’ sentiment of non-accountability. Common gripes about the poor Malaysian work culture include:

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Unless you’ve been living a rock, you’ve at least seen articles, heard about or watched Netflix’s Making a Murderer on the mistrial and subsequent conviction of alleged rapist-murderer Steven Avery. And now that Netflix is readily available in Malaysia (with...

Whether you're still in university and looking for an internship, or an experienced professional seeking your next job, finding your next workplace is never easy, and conducting research on your employers of choice is integral in that process. 

With that,...

Insights from corporate lawyer Marcus van Geyzel, Partner of Peter Ling & van Geyzel, in taking your legal career beyond the ordinary.

There is a vast number of lawyers in Malaysia (at last count, there are 16,104 of us), with an ever-increasing number of law g...

....Not that it's a competition, or even if it were, a prize that one should be proud to win.

But if you're working in an investment bank or a city law firm in Malaysia, you may sometimes (if not, regularly) feel that you're pulling hours that are well above...

On 31 December 2015, BON, Advocates tweeted: 

"Everything else remains the same" - point-blank yet elusive - and yet we knew there was more to this understated, inconspicuously timed announcement of two high profile power-houses coming together to, we...

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Remember those times when you suspected that office workers spent their day playing

Solitaire or Minesweeper on their work computers?

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Ah, nostalgia...

Now make way for Candy Crush, FarmVille, and Angry...

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The Lunar New Year is in the air (literally, with all the tanglungs and flying acrobats in lion costumes! Haha I’m hilarious)! It’s time to bring out and bring in cookies to your workplace so other can partake with the joy!

But...

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Thinking of giving out ang bao packets to your colleagues or employees?

Often given by married or older individuals to single or younger people, this gesture is done to wish or inspire good luck and to ward off evil. Wit...