CareersCompass by MyCareersFuture Podcast
CareersCompass by MyCareersFuture Podcast
CareersCompass by MyCareersFuture
What Happens and What to Do When Your Employer Has a Retrenchment or M&A Exercise
7 minutes Posted Dec 1, 2025 at 2:06 am.
) To be retrenched, or reassigned to a new role during an M&A: Which is worse?
) How to improve your chances being retained in such situations
) If your career path changes, how can you settling into your next job fast?
Introduction to Career Journeys
Navigating Mergers and Acquisitions
Adapting to New Roles
Key Competencies for Success
Closing Insights and Thanks
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Jamie Ong leads the People and Communication function for HAVI Southeast Asia cluster and Freight Management Asia business.
But her two decades in the workforce has not always been so smooth sailing. In fact, Jamie revealed to us that in the course of her career, she’s experienced five merger and acquisitions (M&As)!
These can be fraught with uncertainty, with outcomes ranging from an outright retrenchment by new company investors,  internal restructuring that leads to joining  a new department or team, to performing a completely different job role, she shared.
In this episode, Jamie reveals more on the circumstances of these moments in her career, and puts on her HR director cap on to share tips on how to deal with such situations.
She also talks about how to bounce back, whether it’s moving to a new job or staying in the organisation, and how to settle into the new reality fast.
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