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Highlights: Employee Healthcare Interactive 2017, Singapore

Intro: With a focus on flex benefits for increased ROI, here's what drove conversations at the invite-only event, as reported by Jerene Ang. 

Personalised flexible benefits, virtual health, and getting management buy-in were some of the key takeaways at the Employee Healthcare Interactive 2017 conference in Singapore.

Held at InterContinental Singapore on 6 October 2017, the conference produced by Nikita Erpini, has been tailored for HR leaders to understand how to implement effective healthcare programmes to increase bottom-line results.

Inaugurating the conference was Jerene Ang, senior journalist, Human Resources. She said: “The phrase ‘health is wealth’ was conceived for a reason. It makes sense for organisations to invest in their employees’ health and wellbeing since healthy employees tend to be more productive – wouldn’t you agree?”

Kicking start with the first keynote was a speaker was Eudora Choo, vice-president of benefits and governance for APAC at Deutsche Bank. Armed with many years of experience in the areas of benefits consulting and HR with large MNCs serving a diverse clientele, currently, at Deutsche Bank, she is responsible for driving the wide array of benefit programmes the bank has for its 18,000 employees in the region.

For her presentation, she tapped on her experience to identify the reasons for lack of employee participation in health and wellness programmes, as well as how to motivate employees through education, communication, rewards and incentives.

EHI 2017 panel

 

Following a short coffee break and the final interactive session, we had a panel of five HR leaders who discussed ideas for creating a purpose driven culture that aligns with organisational goals and values, with an HR expert with 20 years of experience as the panel moderator – Ramesh Ganeshan, vice-president of HR for the Asia Pacific region at Agility Logistics [seated extreme right].

Joining him were panelists [L-R]:Reddiam Raghu Ram, head of HR for global specialties and Asian talent lead at Shell; Janice Ong, pension and benefits director at ABB; Jacely Voon, head of regional rewards and HR programmes management at Fuji Xerox; and Linda Lim, director of rewards solutions for East Asia and Japan at Schneider Electric.

[check out the photos from the event]

Before we called it a day, delegates were invited to contribute their top takeaway via Pigeonhole on to a word cloud. Alongside, we invited our table hosts to sum up their key takeaways from today. With that, we came to the end of Employee Healthcare Interactive 2017.

Human Resources would like to thank the speakers for making the time to share their best practices. We would also like to thank all delegates for making the conference a wonderful one.

Last but not the least, we would like to thank our sponsors for making the event possible:

Platinum sponsor: Fullerton Health

Gold Sponsors: CXA Mercer Marsh Benefits™

Silver Sponsors: Aetna International Mednefits Prudential Singapore

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