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Managing Staff Reorganisations in the Era of AI and Tariffs
A half day online seminar providing strategic guidance for navigating organisational restructuring in today's rapidly evolving business landscape.
December 8th, 2025 | 9:00am - 1:00pm | Microsoft Teams
Why This Matters Now
AI Revolution
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Malaysian companies are leveraging artificial intelligence to work faster, scale operations, and transform business models.
Tariff Impact
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Organisations must navigate US trade tariffs and their operational implications on business structure.
Strategic Restructuring​​
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Companies need precise knowledge to manage reorganisation efforts successfully and adjust reporting structures.
Critical Questions We'll Answer
Job Enrichment & Transfers
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Can we use 'job enrichment' as justification for transferring an employee to work in a different state?
Function Redistribution
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Can we redistribute an employee's job functions to another department and retrench the employee?
AI-Driven Redundancy
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Where automation and AI has reduce job scope, can we justify redundancy if 50% of the job scope remains?
Secondment Duration
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How long can we place an employee under secondment and must we absorb them back if the original role is gone?
More Complex Scenarios
Outsourcing Transitions
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How do we manage employees affected by outsourcing job functions to third parties?
Prioritisation Strategy
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Can we prioritise under-performers and medically unfit employees during mutual separation exercises safely?
Mutual Separation
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Can we offer mutual separation directly instead of placing employees under-performance improvement plans?
Efficient Process
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In-depth exercise on managing staff reorganisation processes efficiently.
Session Agenda
9:00am- 10:30am: Business Realities
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Impact of US trade tariffs on Malaysian companies
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AI and digitalisation effects on global reorganisations
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Legal requirements and differences between retrenchment, VSS, and MSS
10:45am - 1:00pm: Managing Transitions
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Transfers, secondments, and constructive dismissal claims
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Exiting underperforming staff and managing outsourcing
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Reorganisation process with steering committees and communication strategies
Sample transfer notices, VSS/MSS notices, communication scripts,court awards, and case studies will be shared wdith participants.