As Singapore moves into Phase 3, employees are beginning to think about life after the pandemic including the possibilities on how they can restructure their time outside of the traditional 9-to-5 work-week model. Nearly a year ago, non-essential employees were forced to work from home on a consistent basis -...
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 other motivated perpetrators, as detailed in...
A report fromHubSpot found that despite an ongoing focus on artificial intelligence (AI) growth and adoption in Singapore, only 27% of local organisations have officially implemented AI or AI-enhanced tools to support employees with their work.  While organisational-wide adoption of AI may be low, individual use of AI is high,...
Without doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic is by far the most profound disruption to work life on record. As remote working has evolved from a nice-to-have, to a fundamental requirement, the Singaporean workforce is experiencing massive changes to the way they work, with most working within the four walls of...
The Aon plc 2023 Salary Increase and Turnover Report for Southeast Asia revealed that salaries in southeast Asia are expected to increase in 2024.While salaries in Singapore and Malaysia are expected to stay flat at 4.0 percent and 5.0 percent respectively, the survey found the median salary is expected to...
As companies move into a COVID-19 endemic world, Human Resources (HR) will play a strategic function to ensure a smooth transition of the workforce and workplaces. For that reason, 83% of HR leaders say that they are open to embracing digitalisation of HR processes. However, HR leaders' top concern when...
Reeracoen Vietnam released a comprehensive survey titled "What Vietnamese Workers Want in 2024". Conducted in June and July 2024, the survey gathered insights from 105 Vietnamese workers, revealing their priorities, expectations for annual salary increases, and job change intentions. The survey results are crucial for businesses and policymakers as they navigate...
IR has revealed research that shows that more than 25% of IT professionals waste more than one full work day per week managing needless tasks. This time crunch effectively means IT teams end up as the 'fire-department' of an organization, reactively dealing with disgruntled end users and wasting time fixing...
Deloitte China CFO Program conducted the second issue of 2022 China CFO Survey in September with the theme "CFO leadership in the age of digital intelligence". The respondents are CFOs from Chinese mainland, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR.Economic statistics to date show that China's economy is recovering in...
Despite majority of Singapore employers (89%) reporting that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of cloud computing and Machine Learning (ML) in their companies, obstacles abound. Singapore business leaders say that the largest hindrance to adopting cloud computing and ML technologies is the shortage of relevant in-house IT support...