Singapore embarked on a review of women’s issues in the move towards greater gender equality, leading to a White Paper in the early part of 2021. The objective is to achieve gender equality as well as changes to Singapore’s cultural value system.…
I almost pumped my fists in the air when I first heard the news. We will receive our batch of COVID-19 vaccine, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong revealed in a televised address on Dec 14. Even though I have severe trypanophobia…
I recall feeling something was amiss when I drove for Uber. This was back in 2016. Initially, I couldn’t pin down what that was. A few days in, I realised that something was work stress. Since no work could be…
How quickly things can change. At the beginning of this year, not many of us may have known what the Zoom app was let alone be familiar in using it. Within months, as COVID-19 forced people around the world to…
COVID-19 has forced many companies to adopt flexible and remote working arrangements – hastening a trend that had threatened to disrupt the way we work for years now. While this is a step in the right direction to keep in…
Driving for a ride-sharing firm is indeed an excellent way to supplement one’s income or if one needs to get a job quickly. That was what I did in 2016. I was 36 years old then and had just left…
For a long time, flexible working arrangements allowing staff to work from home have been seen as a privilege, to attract late-rising millennials, boost workplace diversity and retain staff with family commitments, especially new mothers. Yet because of the spread…
With the slow recovery to the COVID-19 situation, Ukraine-Russia war, inflation and interest rates hike, one cannot imagine how all these will not impact the global economy and the local job market outlook. At the current moment, we seem to…
