In a move to combat fatigue triggered by remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic, Citigroup Inc has declared “Zoom-Free Fridays” and encouraged employees to limit calls outside work hours. While Wall Street is known for its tough work culture, the remote working during the pandemic has been particularly gruelling for most employees, taking enormous toll […]Continue reading

Microsoft Corp just announced the findings from its first annual Work Trend Index. Titled “The Next Great Disruption is Hybrid Work – Are We Ready?” the report uncovers seven hybrid work trends every business leader needs to know as we enter this new era of work. The report indicates that business leaders should resist the […]Continue reading

Why should we talk about gender?  Gender is an important consideration in the development of every life aspect of an individual. Gender is also considered an important topic as it offers a way of looking at how social norms and power structures impact the lives and opportunities available to different groups of men and women. […]Continue reading

A new Manulife survey on Singaporeans’ retirement saving priorities and attitudes has revealed that 72% of retired respondents regret not saving for retirement sooner and almost half of them wish they had invested in a retirement plan. The survey was conducted online and polled 1,000 Singaporeans aged 21 to over 60, across a spectrum of […]Continue reading

This article is a guest post. Singapore has recently seen its highest retrenchment numbers in more than a decade, due to cost-cutting and the effects of Covid-19. As a result, many Singaporeans were forced to reevaluate their career choices. However, it has also given many the opportunity to make a significant career switch altogether. In […]Continue reading

Mobile devices are having the same revolutionary effect on our working lives that the advent of the computer had decades ago. Rapid advances in technology mean there is now a wide range of hardware and software to help organise and streamline one’s working life. There are many apps available that can be put to good […]Continue reading

When you were young, what was your ambition? It must be something simple. We as children can do anything we are interested in, no need to worry about food and school tuitions. But as we grew older, things changed. We need to buy our own food, pay our own university tuitions, pay bills, etc. Money […]Continue reading

It has been a year since the world of recruitment and hiring was upended due to COVID-19, leaving employers, students and higher education institutions in need of new ways to connect. With the spring recruiting season on the horizon, Handshake, the leading site for college students to find jobs, surveyed Gen Z to better understand what […]Continue reading

Over 98,000 eligible employers in Singapore will receive Wage Credit Scheme payouts worth S$940 million by Mar 31, said the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) on Thursday (Mar 18). In order to receive the payouts, employers do not need to apply to IRAS. Those eligible will receive letters by […]Continue reading

Practices to unlocking your potentials   Experts suggested that unlocking potentials is a process of learning and unlearning. This is the interplay of a focused practice of oneself to help unlearn mental models and ways of operating that are no longer useful, then, to learn skills and capabilities that are relevant to one’s future lives.  […]Continue reading