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Leaving Penang – part 2. ‘Dark Skies’

It was August 2021 and we were still in the tail end of  the pandemic. However it seemed as though the hotel I was managing would be able to re-open again in early September. We had been closed since the 12th of May. The vaccine roll out in Malaysia was taking hold. The government [...]

By |2024-01-31T02:43:16+00:00November 7th, 2021|Niges Blog, World of Work|0 Comments

Leaving Penang – part 1. ‘Clouds on the horizon’

This is a cautionary tale, but it does have a happy ending. It was early October 2020. In spite of the odds we had just opened the hotel I was managing, mid pandemic in fact. (The picture above is of the first paying guests). People thought we were crazy to try and open, but [...]

By |2024-01-31T02:43:03+00:00November 6th, 2021|Niges Blog, World of Work|0 Comments

Employee Retention.

This post was originally written a few years ago by Lisa Earle McLeod, a millennial and cum laude graduate of Boston University, but the importance of the subject has not diminished in any way since that time. If anything it is even more relevant in 2019. "I’ve worked in corporate America, administrative offices, advertising agencies, and [...]