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Cover of the document Vietnam Labor Law Updates 2026
Compliance

Vietnam Labor Law Updates 2026

Personal income tax, social insurance, penalties and foreign-worker permits: what employers need to do before year-end.

Between January and December 2026, Vietnam reset the rules on personal income tax, social insurance, payroll penalties and foreign-worker permits. Seven changes account for most of the cost and compliance impact on employers, and most have actions due before the year ends.

  • Higher family deductions and the new tax brackets
  • Social insurance benefits under the new base salary
  • Decree 283 penalties and Decree 393 foreign-worker rules
  • Action plan for payroll and HR teams, by timing
37 pagesEnglishIssue #7 · November 2026
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Talent

Decoding Gen Z

A guide to recruiting, understanding, and retaining young talent during a company's growth stage.

Written for HR managers, department heads, and business leaders, this guide looks at how to recruit, understand, and retain Gen Z talent as your company grows.

  • Recruiting young talent
  • Understanding how Gen Z thinks about work
  • Retaining young talent during the growth stage
EnglishIssue #5 · July 2026
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Recruitment

Designing Job Descriptions That Attract the Right Candidates

A practical framework to improve candidate alignment from the first interaction.

Many job descriptions generate high application volume but low relevance. This document repositions the job description as a strategic tool rather than an administrative document, and walks through the Talent Alignment Framework to attract the right candidates, not just more of them.

  • The Talent Alignment Framework, from business needs to market communication
  • Why generic job descriptions lose the right candidates
  • Before-and-after rewrites for a Marketing Executive role
  • Matching message and channel to the role level
13 pagesEnglishIssue #2 · May 2026
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Talent

Designing Onboarding That Gets New Hires Productive Faster

A structured, measurable approach to getting new hires productive sooner.

Productivity delays are not a people problem, they are a system design problem. This document shifts onboarding from a task checklist to a structured framework built on a clear definition of productivity, a milestone-based journey and a standardized way to measure it.

  • Productivity defined as Ability + Clarity + Confidence
  • The hidden cost of slow ramp-up and early attrition
  • A timeline-based journey from preboarding to early performance
  • A milestone-based ramp-up model that HR and managers share
10 pagesEnglishIssue #1 · April 2026
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