Deel has released its annual 2025 State of Global Hiring Report, the most comprehensive analysis of how companies hire across borders, which draws on more than one million worker contracts from over 37,000 companies in 150+ countries.
The 2025 report reveals four major shifts transforming the global labour market:
The emergence...
Graduate management education (GME) programs worldwide saw a 7 percent rise in applications in 2025, building on last year's record-breaking growth, according to the latest annual Application Trends Survey of global business education trends released today by the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), a nonprofit association of leading business schools worldwide.
This year's...
Singapore's Budget 2026 places AI at the heart of the country's growth agenda. Expanded training pathways, free access to premium tools, and stronger enterprise support send an unmistakable signal: AI skills are fast becoming the currency of competitiveness.
For SMEs — the backbone of Singapore's economy — these measures could...
PERSOL has released its Industry Insight Report 2025, revealing an urgent need for employers across Asia Pacific to adapt to a fast-changing talent landscape.
With hybrid digital and ESG-related skills in short supply, the study finds that employee expectations for flexibility, purpose and growth now outweigh pay, reshaping talent attraction...
Findings from Agoda's AI Developer Report 2025 reveal that developers are teaching themselves AI faster than many companies can roll out AI training, fueling rapid skill growth across the region but exposing gaps in access, support, and structure.
AI is now a defining force in career growth and learning. Eighty-seven percent of...
The Singapore Business Federation (SBF) has released findings from its National Business Survey 2025 – Q4 Business Sentiments Edition indicating early signs of stabilisation in business sentiments, as firms navigate persistent global cost and trade pressures while positioning for measured recovery.
Overall business sentiment has turned cautiously positive, with the...
The American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore (AmChamSG), in collaboration with Accenture and WEConnect International, launched a report titled 'The Diversity Dividend: Why it Pays to Engage Women Owned Businesses in Southeast Asia'
The report includes analysis of the supplier diversity of 631 companies in Singapore, Vietnam and Indonesia, and found that corporate revenue...
Asia Pacific’s (APAC) organisations are scaling up the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to modernise payroll delivery as skills shortages persist and workforce models evolve, according to ADP’s latest report, The Potential of Payroll in 2026.
The report finds that skills shortages continue to challenge payroll teams in APAC, with 80%...
Singapore’s workforce has not lost faith in the idea of finding happiness in the workplace – but many are struggling to experience it in practice. New research from Jobstreet by SEEK reveals a widening gap between what workers believe work should feel like and what they are actually living...
On 12 February 2026, Budget 2026 was delivered by Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Lawrence Wong. This was the government’s first Budget in its new term and comes at the start of the post-SG60 phase.
Budget 2026 is designed to refresh the strategies that have given Singapore an...
