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ME-SSION — Cracking the Employee Happiness Code: A Startup's Bold Mission - Dorothy Yiu →

Octobor 2024. Join us for an inspiring conversation with Dorothy Yiu, EngageRocket’s Co-Founder and CEO, as she shares her journey from banking to pioneering HR tech, insights on the future of work, and her advocacy for inclusivity. Learn from her experience balancing entrepreneurship, motherhood, and a mission to transform workplace experiences globally.

IMDA Singapore — 5 most common barriers to creating the best teams and how to overcome them →

February 2023. Dorothy Yiu, Co-Founder of EngageRocket (an IMDA Accredited company), breaks down the five most common barriers to creating the best teams and shares insights on how companies can solve them. 

SaaS Unbound — Turning SaaS competitors into partners to win the market with Dorothy Yiu @ EngageRocket →

June 2024. Dorothy Yiu, Co-founder & CEO (International) of EngageRocket, joined Anna Nadeina on the SaaS.Unbound podcast. The discussion focused on product validation, conquering local markets before global expansion, navigating enterprise sales in South-East Asia, and managing the challenges of founders' mental health and family life. 

Khaleej Times — HR summit seeks to elevate employee experience →

June 2024. Recently, the inaugural People Leaders’ Summit, hosted by EngageRocket and Rewardz in the Middle East, brought together nearly 100 HR and people leaders from the region. This landmark event marked a pivotal moment in transforming workplace experiences with advanced technology. 

AsiaTech x Summit 2024 — Overcoming Bias: A Journey of a Female Founder in Tech →

May 2024. At the ATxSummit 2024, Dorothy Yiu shared insights on the panel titled "Things I Wish I Knew in My 20s – This Generation of Women Owning the Tech Space." She highlighted strategies for overcoming gender bias, addressing imposter syndrome, and promoting gender diversity in leadership.

Tech In Asia — Early-stage Singapore startups expanding into the US market →

May 2024. Singapore startups go global! Amid COVID-19 challenges, Igloohome, EngageRocket, LionsBot, Mito Health, and myFirst pivot to the US market, finding new growth opportunities and expanding horizons. Learn how Singapore's tech startups like Igloohome and EngageRocket are navigating the US market, leveraging high labor costs and tech-savvy consumers to fuel growth.

Tech Coffee House — IMDA Unveils 22 New SG Digital Leaders to Propel Singapore’s Tech Future →

May 2024. The Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) recognized Dorothy Yiu, Co-Founder and CEO (International) of EngageRocket among the 2024 SG Digital Leaders during a ceremony at the Pan Pacific Singapore. 

BackScoop — Ice Breakers with Dorothy Yiu →

March 2024. Get up close and personal with our co-founder & CEO (International) Dorothy Yiu, from the biggest highlight of her career and the trend she's keeping an eye on this year to her favorite ice cream flavor.

DIGICON Asia — What are the three C’s of thriving amid 2024’s macro challenges? →

January 2024. In recent research drawing from interviews with some 100 global human resource leaders, and through analysis of responses from its clients, one employee-experience technology provider has distilled four key work trends/approaches for 2024.

The Business Times — Stress is down, pay is fairer, but loyalty is dipping: what the regional employment outlook looks like →

November 2023. In the wake of seismic changes prompted by the global pandemic since 2020, the landscape of work has seen big shifts, with organizations grappling with the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, as well as many supervised layoffs and cutbacks to cope with economic upheavals.

Bloomberg TV — Beyond Innovation S3: CheeTung Leong, EngageRocket →

May 2023. Beyond Innovation's Anthony Lacavera sits down with CheeTung Leong, Co-founder of EngageRocket, to learn how the platform helps Human Resources of companies face change with software that allows organizations to make better people decisions using real time data that highlights patterns of employees within the company.

Human Resources Online — HR in 2023: 5 trends shaping the employee experience →

January 2023. 2022 saw many trends and phenomena that kept leaders on their feet – such as the Great Resignation and talent shortage, quiet quitting, the rise of distributed workplaces, and more, causing leaders to re-evaluate their employee experience strategies. Organizations need to undertake proactive measures to transform the employee experience for the better, as EngageRocket's HR Outlook 2023 points out.

Yahoo Finance — HR-tech startup EngageRocket announces winners of their Workplace of the Year Awards 2022: Digital transformation that enables human connection is key →

August 2022. The Workplace of the Year 2022 Awards, produced by EngageRocket, the APAC's fastest-growing employee experience technology provider, celebrate the outstanding achievements of organisations for their resilience and the phenomenal work they have done as we move to the post-pandemic recovery phase.

e27 — Recession concerns and its impact on return to office: The roadmap for 2022-23 →

June 2022. Without engaged and productive employees, companies will find it difficult to navigate and move through a recession period. Employer-employee dynamics have already undergone a major shift in the last two years, and recent economic forecasts suggest that another transition could be up ahead.

Human Resources Online — Workers in Singapore are aware of work-life harmony, but unsure of what it entails →

June 2022. To better understand the state of work-life harmony today, employee perceptions, and employee needs surrounding work-life harmony, EngageRocket conducted a survey of 3,332 employees in Singapore across 10 industries. 

CNA 938 — Money Mind - Increasing employee retention →

April 2022. While employees in Singapore may not be resigning at a similar rate as their US counterparts during the Great Resignation wave, EngageRocket says organizations should not be laid back and take attrition lightly. Studies found that employee engagement levels are low in Singapore, despite it being a significant predictor of employees’ intent to stay in the organization.

People Matters — Managers can become the champions of culture →

February 2022. Aligning expectations between what employees want and what employers are able to give is the first step toward addressing this challenge. 77% of people say they would prefer to work for a company that gives them flexibility, yet not all employers know what it takes to be flexible.

MoneyFM 89.3 — Why It Matters: ‘Angpao exodus’ adds to Great Resignation woes →

February 2022. Known as the “angpao exodus”, employees tend to wait until receiving their large annual bonus pay-out, which happens typically around the Lunar New Year, before they resign and this may lead to increased rate of resignation across companies. 

The Edge Singapore — How companies can stem the Great Resignation in 2022 →

February 2022. As the Singapore government plans to relax regulations and initiate a gradual return to physical workplaces, companies face a critical question: What’s next?

CNA Commentary — Why companies don’t seem to get what employees really want →

November 2021. Surveys are showing that employee engagement is low, there’s a growing number who are thinking of resigning and money alone is not enough. What accounts for the continued gap in mismatched expectations? EngageRocket’s Co-founder Leong Chee Tung weighs in. 

Business Insider — EngageRocket raises $3M Series A, led by Qualgro, to boost People Analytics in Southeast Asia →

March 2020. EngageRocket, the fastest-growing Asian employee engagement and performance software, today announced a S$3 million investment to strengthen its presence in Southeast Asia (SEA). The transaction was led by Qualgro, a regional VC based in Singapore. Existing investors SeedPlus, Found. Ventures and JobsCentral co-founder, Huang Shao-Ning, were among those who increased their investment into the company. This brings the total funding raised by the company to S$4.5M.

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Case Study — How Toyota Laos builds a people-first culture and develops targeted action plans for high-risk teams with EngageRocket →

October 2024. As the first Toyota distributor in Lao PDR, Toyota Laos Co., Ltd. doesn’t just focus on quality cars – they’re also driving employee engagement to new heights. Discover how they partnered with EngageRocket to achieve 100% survey participation, uncover key areas for improvement, and build a workplace culture that’s more aligned, supportive, and thriving.

PR Newswire — EngageRocket's HR Outlook 2024 reveals 4 proactive workplace approaches for thriving amidst global economic shifts →

January 2024. The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for resilient leadership in companies, which are now adapting to new challenges like geopolitical tensions, inflation, and ESG concerns. These factors demand proactive organizational strategies for success. EngageRocket's HR Outlook 2024, drawing from interviews with over 100 global HR leaders and analysis of millions of employee survey responses, outlines four key work trends for 2024 and offers expert recommendations for businesses.

PR Newswire — Circa and EngageRocket Partner to Show Impact of Diversity Hiring →

March 2023. Circa is pleased to announce a formal partnership with EngageRocket, a leading employee engagement and performance software based in Asia that empowers companies to enable human connections at scale. Circa is partnering with EngageRocket to provide its U.S. customers and prospects access to their employee experience solutions to improve employee engagement and productivity.

Case Study — InCorp Global’s transformative journey in unifying their group of companies with an employee-first approach →

February 2023. InCorp Global was founded in 2015 and is currently home to more than a thousand employees in eight different countries across the Asia-Pacific region. The fast-paced growth of the company sets up the need for a unified culture that would allow employees across different regions to bring their best selves to work every day. Read about InCorp Global’s transformative journey in unifying their group of companies with an employee-first approach.

Case Study — How M-DAQ utilizes real-time employee feedback to encourage its people to collaborate better, contribute stronger, and stay longer →

November 2022. Founded in 2010 with a vision to create a World without Currency Borders®, M-DAQ Group is a Singapore-headquartered company that empowers businesses in various industries to facilitate cross-border transactions with its best-in-class FX solutions.

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EngageRocket is an employee experience platform that helps organizations build their employee listening strategy and make data-driven decisions to improve their workplace culture and people practices.

Trusted by the top companies in 18 countries and spanning 20 diverse industries—including Sephora, Toyota, Nikon, CGS-CIMB, and Epson — EngageRocket provides continuous listening and real-time analytics to support impactful management action.

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Dorothy Yiu

Co-founder and CEO of EngageRocket

Dorothy Yiu is the Co-Founder and CEO of EngageRocket, one of the top Asia’s EX & people analytics platforms. Dorothy brings over a decade of experience in human resources, technology, and business strategy.

Before EngageRocket, Dorothy was the Regional Head of Operations for Gallup, a global analytics and advisory company where she oversaw the execution of over 100 large-scale consulting projects globally.

Dorothy holds two degrees from Singapore Management University under the Lee Kong Chian Scholarship. She was also NTT’s Women of Future nominee in 2022 and was named SG Digital Leader by IMDA in 2024.

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CheeTung (CT) Leong

Co-founder, CEO (Americas) of EngageRocket

CT is the Co-Founder and CEO (Americas) of EngageRocket, an HRTech SaaS that helps organization build empowered managers, engaged employees, and elite teams. He’s a big nerd when it comes to economics and psychology and regularly use data and tech to help folks live their best lives.

Before becoming an entrepreneur, he was Regional Director of Gallup in Southeast Asia - one of the world's top HR advisories. He graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Cambridge and has an MA in Political Science from Columbia University. 

CT has been recognized by Prestige Magazine as one of the top 40 under 40 business leaders and have been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and Tech in Asia.

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