Month August 2024

HUMAN RESOURCES

THE PITFALLS OF QUIET FIRING Merilee Kern highlights the negative connotations of ‘quiet firing’ on employees and organisations The phenomenon of quiet quitting, which refers to employees doing the least amount of work required for their jobs simply to get…

IT-BPO SECTOR

HUB POTENTIAL Compiled by Yamini Sequeira ECONOMIC GAME CHANGER Surinda Gunawardena calls for a dynamic environment for the IT-BPO sector “Sri Lanka’s IT-BPO (business process outsourcing) sector has emerged as a significant contributor to the economy by tran­sitioning from being…

HEALTHCARE SECTOR

CURATIVE TRADITIONAL MEDS Ayurveda and hela wedakama will buoy the healthcare sector – Janaka Perera Sri Lanka’s healthcare sector is facing serious challenges that include a shortage of medicinal drugs in government hospitals, substandard and outdated pharmaceuticals, the high cost…

Sri Lanka’s LTL Holdings plans Rs20bn IPO

ECONOMYNEXT –Marxists Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power’s (NPP) economic policies will erode Sri Lanka’s economic recovery and lead to the second economic crisis, Foreign Minister Ali Sabry said. Sabry, the former Finance Minister who started negotiations with the…

THE FORUM 📌 MPOX ALERT This…

[embedded content] THE FORUM 📌MPOX ALERT This week on LMDtv Ruwandi Perera speaks with the President of the Sri Lanka Medical & Dental Association in the UK, and Professor and Consultant in Clinical Immunology, Allergy and Immunogenetics at the Royal…