What’s The Deal With Retiring Using CPF In Singapore?
The Central Provident Fund (CPF) has been quite a hot topic in Singapore over the recent years. Created to provide a comprehensive social security system for working Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents to set aside funds for retirement, CPF also addresses our essential need for healthcare, home ownership, family protection and asset enhancement. While it is easy to […]
How Singapore PMEs Should Maximise Benefits From Budget 2015
Singaporeans on a whole are a whiny lot. Grievances can be heard from all walks of life and it never seen to be our own fault, someone has to be blamed for our plight. Well, here’s a realistic check – the whole world does not owe you a living and spending your free time on […]
Coca-Cola Empowers Women Entrepreneurs Through #5by20 Program
From fruit farmers to artisans to vendors, women around the world are already pillars of modern businesses. The good folks at Coca-Cola Company are building on that foundation by implementing #5by20 – a program created to help women entrepreneurs by remove some of their most common barriers to success. 5by20 signify Coca-Cola’s goal to empower 5 million […]
Give A Fú Dài This Festive Season At SG Care & Share 2015
The festive season can be a lonely time for an elderly living alone or for a family facing difficulty. A volunteer bearing a Fú Dài (A bag of Lunar New Year festive gifts which brings wishes of joy and health) signifies more than gifts – his or her gesture shows that someone cares. Community Chest invites you to […]
Migrant Workers – The Real ‘Awakening’ Of Singapore Today
Most Singaporeans should be familiar with the storyline of the 1984 television drama serial The Awakening (雾锁南洋) and probably can even hymn its famous opening title. With our beloved Veteran Actor Huang Wen Yong as the main lead, the series featured the hardship experienced by our first generation of Chinese immigrants, who arrived to a relatively undeveloped island and […]
She Has Probably Eaten More Salt Than You Have Eaten Rice!
There is a Chinese saying ‘我吃盐多过你吃米’ which literally meant ‘I have eaten more salt than you have eaten rice’. In Asian culture, rice is the staple for most of our meals. To say that someone has eaten more salt than you have of rice, it shows that they have been around and gone through a great […]
10 Ways To Become Cheaper, Better & Faster In Singapore!
The Cheaper, Better & Faster Strategy was first mooted by NTUC Chief Lim Swee Say in 2009 to help improve the global competitiveness of companies and to benefit workers in Singapore. Not to be mistaken as how to treat workers, these 3 terms are actually solutions for businesses to be more competitive. Cheaper denote becoming more productive, Better signify becoming […]
Union Health Grant Promotes Healthy Living For Mature Workers
Singapore is facing a double whammy when it comes to manpower. Our island state is experiencing a fast ageing workforce and a tight labour market. With Singaporeans expressing their unhappiness for foreign manpower, the next best option for the Labour Movement would be to keep our mature workers happy and healthy so that they can […]
Top 11 Practical Second Skills To Make A Living In Singapore
We know that the fear of recession and unemployment looms behind 43% of Singaporeans from a 2013 GFK Survey. I fear the loss of job and income too. That fear has propelled me to develop and hone my second skill as a blogger. The second-skilling concept is something that I hold really close to my heart. […]
Let’s ASPIRE Towards “One Race To The Top” For Singaporeans!
The Singapore society is obsessed with paper qualifications which determines its bearer’s job progression and set a glass ceiling to their career potential. Our Human Resources folks derive great satisfaction from making quick works of their staff career potential classifications based on their education qualifications and grades. Every parent pinned high hopes on their children […]
Sheraton Towers Singapore Innovations & Productivity Journey For Better Staff Welfare
Although I personally love automation (particularly online tools that make engagement on social media so much easier) but innovation and automation at workplaces used to make me really nervous. The introduction of new technology and innovation often translate to enhanced productivity and the laying off of workers who have been made redundant. The recent learning journey […]
No More Sugar Coating For Our Strawberry Generation
Singapore will be celebrating its 50th birthday in 2015. The nation and its citizens are one of Asia’s greatest success stories, transforming itself from a Third World economy with a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of S$1,374 (US$1,136) in 1961 to become one of the most competitive economies in the world, with a GDP […]
