Future of Work, productivity, strategies and workplace hacks.
Productivity – the buzzword of the Singapore economy since time immemorial. In the beginning, it was very much centred on the industrial age that we were in. This means getting operators to adopt new equipment, change to new workflows or…
In 2019, Jeremy Tong – the then 29-year-old Singaporean successfully scaled up Mount Everest. Stories like his often get romanticised, but his journey climbing the world’s tallest mountain was anything but rosy. The path to the summit was full of…
When a former colleague, Eliza*, who has dedicated years in tech start-ups, quit and joined a government-linked company (GLC), it came as a surprise. Why the drastic change? Then she broke it down for me: The horrendous long hours, non-existent…
There is a reason why cab drivers are often referred to as taxi uncles. Most are of an older generation and a huge proportion remain men. There is no data to back this but, anecdotally, in my last 10 taxi…
It is tough not to read another technology article without Artificial Intelligence (AI) being mentioned. To that extent, it is not surprising to see companies using that word more and more loosely. On one spectrum, you have Oracle CEO Mark…
Artificial intelligence (AI), as a recruitment tool, has been rapidly rising and revolutionizing the recruiting process. Similarly to sales representatives and marketers that had profited from automation tools such as HubSpot and Salesforce, recruiters are now progressively turning to AI…
One of my first office jobs was temping for NTUC Income’s human resources (HR) department. The bulk of my time was spent on mail merge, printing out hundreds of rejection letters to mail out to unselected job applicants. Despite how…
It was just after 4pm when one of my managers and I kicked off our weekly catch up. We went through the usual numbers, and after going through a few other items, eventually arrived at the finale – me letting…
