Past Events

Pretium's year-end HR Roundtable brought together industry leaders to explore "The Resilient Growth Playbook: Balancing Agility and Stability in a New Era" delivering powerful insights for tomorrow's workplace challenges.

Strategic Insights for 2026:

Our experts demonstrated how integrated approaches are reshaping HR strategy. Ms. May Poon shared valuable perspectives on architecting precise, agile, and competitive compensation frameworks to help organizations navigate the evolving business landscape. Through compelling case studies, she demonstrated how incentive structures can be strategically calibrated to not only drive sustainable growth but also intelligently mitigate risks. Mr. Emrys Lam proved that holistic wellness programs deliver superior retention impact and boost productivity

Four Pillars for Future-Ready Organizations:

1. Intelligent Reward Systems

• Precision-designed compensation that balances attraction power with sustainable risk management
• Case studies showing calibrated incentives that align growth with stability

2. Adaptive Performance Alignment

• Align reward and workforce strategies that integrate resilience and agility into business objectives
• Frameworks for navigating volatility while seizing emerging opportunities

3. Strategic and Collaborative Models

• Cross-functional approaches to balance agility and stability
• Integrated people strategies combining financial and non-financial elements

4. Holistic Retention Strategies

• Wellness initiatives transformed from peripheral benefits to core retention drivers
• Data demonstrating how well-being investments create lasting talent stability

During the webinar, Ms. May Poon shared case studies on how to develop pay-for-performance reward strategies and optimize manpower alignment. The key takeaways to facilitate HR planning include:

• Developing budget strategies for competitive salary review. Segmentation and differentiation in pay positioning for different businesses according to their relative business performance and development stage.
• Develop salary structures based on desired pay positioning to align employees' salaries with the performance and competencies to promote pay for performance and to provide clear salary planning and career pathing for each department.
• Diverse performance across sectors and conflicting compensation trends have created market noise, necessitating comprehensive analyses and stakeholder engagement to align reward strategies with business goals and employee needs.​
• Optimizing not only headcounts but also manpower resources allocation to ensure talents at the right job level and with the right skills is the key to increase productivity and manage staff costs.

During the conference, participants also engaged in breakout discussions and shared company practices on how HR can be positive resilient from the perspectives of rewards, performance management, talent management, and HR transformation. 

Pretium's Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Webinar was held with the theme "Pay and Performance for Multi-Generational Workforce". The webinar explored how to balance multiple priorities with limited budget to manage a multi-generational workforce.​ Ms. May Poon shared valuable insights on the effect of Great Resignation on staff turnover in Asia and the relationship between salary increase and inflation. She also shared case studies about profit-sharing and pay differentiation strategies. Ms. Becky So, former HR Director of a European Investment Bank, shared a case study related to "New Normal" at work in a Post-COVID World.

Pretium's Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Webinar was held with the theme "Pay and Manpower Planning During the Recovery". The webinar provides insightful market data and direction to enable HR to tap into the recovering economy and align pay and manpower strategies.​ Ms. May Poon shared important insights on how the macro environment will affect pay and bonus planning. She also shared case studies on how to retain and engage young talent and reduce retention risks. Mr. Felix Kung from Global Shares shared the latest ESOP trend & equity administration solution. 

Pretium's Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Webinar was held with the theme "Vigilance and Resilience in the New Normal". The onset of the webinar focused on the understanding the macro environment to stay vigilant. Ms. May Poon shared important insights on how to link compensation with business performance and optimize manpower planning and to strengthen resilience. The final thoughts from Winston Churchill inspired participant to turn difficulties into opportunities. 

Pretium conducted the Year-end Rewards and Human Resource Trends Sharing Session on November 16, 2016 with the theme of "Reinforcing Partnership & Innovation". Partnership and Innovation has become the new frontier to manage uncertainties and increase competitive edge. Our Managing Partner, Ms. May Poon shared professional insights on how to strengthen partnership through incentive programs as well as applying Big Data in pay review and innovation in other HR strategies. Mr. Mike Baker from Global Shares shared how technology enables equity compensation around the world and Ms. Elaine Wong shared the market trends in engagement practices.