PETALING JAYA: With the resumption of non-essential services for businesses, some associations have raised their concerns over remaining restrictions.
Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) expressed relief that the lockdown had been lifted, but pointed out that restrictions to keep corporate offices shut hampers overall business recovery efforts. Its president Datuk Dr Syed Hussain Syed Husman relayed that he has received feedback from members questioning the closure of corporate offices when factory offices were allowed to open, pointing out that major decisions are made at the management level and not at the production sites.
“The operations effectiveness is lost should the corporate offices be required to remain closed. With corporate offices remaining shut, decisions were being made remotely and resulted in a lot of confusion in operations and management,” he said in a…
