Human Resources (HR)

Mission: The Human Resources Committee provides a platform to knowledge share on both strategic and transactional HR issues. The Committee provides updates on prevalent HR trends within the current market as well as look at future trends in HR. These include topics such as talent management, diversity and inclusion (DEI), culture and performance, as well as traditional employment law updates and compensation and benefits insights. The committee promotes transfer of information, strategies, and lessons learned from both international and local Thai companies to increase the impact HR has on organizations.

2022 Accomplishments:

• Organized four webinars on topics including compensation and benefits; legal implications for employers post-Covid; applying best communications practices to HR; and how to kick-start DEI policies in your organization.
• Held Multi-Chamber pre-networking event on ‘Talent Attraction and Retention for Manufacturers’.
• Conducted a Small Business and Entrepreneurs (SBE) clinic and networking event matching small businesses with experts across various fields.
• Collaborated with the Legal, Manufacturing, Marketing & Communications, SBE and Women’s Committees to produce event programming with broad reach across the AMCHAM membership.
• Produced AMCHAM Recommendation Paper on Social Security Contributions for Covid-19 Recovery.

About the Committee: After nearly three years of virtual focus, in 2023 the HR Committee is looking forward to getting back to what the Committee does best – bringing people together! The membership has shown a strong appetite to resume in-person events, based on discussing the key emerging trends affecting the people side of business. As well as exploring further into topics such as DEI, workplace ergonomics, and talent acquisition trends, the Committee hopes to resume some of their regular favorite pre-pandemic flagship events.