Forrester forecasts that working populations in the five largest economies in Asia Pacific — India, China, South Korea, Australia, and Japan — are more at risk due to physical robot automation than Europe and North America.
By 2040, 63 million jobs are expected to be lost to automation, with more than 247 million jobs expected to...
A global study by Workday has found that there is a prevalent lack of a strategic approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) within the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region.
For markets such as Singapore and Hong Kong, the study also revealed that there...
Aon plc has released its 2022-2023 Global Wellbeing Survey, wherein – among other key findings – global data shows that improving employee wellbeing factors can enhance company performance by at least 11 percent and up to 55 percent.
There is a relationship between wellbeing and a...
Reeracoen has released the results of its survey, "What Singapore Workers Want". Conducted throughout July and August this year, the survey aimed to uncover the preferences and expectations of Singaporean workers and their career plans amid the evolving changes in Singapore's economy.
The comprehensive four-part survey garnered...
NTUC LearningHub (NTUC LHUB) has announced the launch of training pathways for Self-Employed Persons (SEPs) to acquire new competencies amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. Each pathway provides a specific skill track that guides SEPs to proficiency into roles such as ‘COVID-19 Citizen Defender’, Healthcare Assistant, Java Developer and Security Officer.
As the majority of Singapore’s workforce continues to work from home, the UOB ASEAN Consumer Sentiment Study found that flexible work arrangements are critical to achieving work-life balance as part of new working norms post-COVID-19.
Almost three quarters of Singapore employees expect that work-life...
The pandemic's work-from-home reality resulted in an unprecedented change for organisations as they fought to defend exponentially greater attack surfaces from cybercriminals armed with powerful cloud-based tools, cloud storage and endless targets.
As working environments evolved, so did the methods of threat actors and...
Results of the Aon plc 2021 Private Market Compensation survey have found that the cost of comparable talent in Singapore is significantly lower at both the Professional individual contributor and Managerial levels. The base salary of start-ups in Singapore compared to the U.S. is, on an average, 12% lower...
About 660,000 individuals upskilled themselves through SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG)-supported programmes in 2021. This was the highest number of SSG-supported individuals in a year since the launch of SkillsFuture.
Extension of COVID-19 support measures
In 2021, SSG extended COVID-19 support measures to...
Sparked by the global pandemic, the Great Resignation has been happening in Singapore for the past two years and will only intensify in 2022.
There has been a wave of resignations in Singapore with almost half (47%) of employees who have been at their current jobs for not...
