Jobs and skills

Small is beautiful: A precision playbook for Singapore’s next lap

How resilience, information hygiene and dispute resolution can turn into the city-state’s next competitive edge

Pupils of Anchor Green Primary School waiting to receive their PSLE results last November. Since the "best" schools are determined largely by their students' academic scores, the focus is on academics and exam results.
THE BROAD VIEW

Time to overhaul the education system

Now, more than ever, the skill our children need is resilience – to pick themselves up after they fail

Organisations that want to be responsible should not wait for a restructuring exercise to think about displaced staff.

To pursue responsible AI for growth, business leaders must address labour displacement

The biggest obstacle to artificial intelligence adoption are workers who fear redundancy

It is hard to tell if professionals doing expert AI training work will be the new form of work that fills the hole that AI could leave in labour markets, while many other jobs morph.

AI’s white-collar gig economy is booming. Can it last?

New roles such as professional trainers for AI software models have emerged, but they could be short-lived

The ESR committees focus on global competitiveness, technology, economic restructuring, among others
SINGAPORE BUDGET 2026

Driving growth, creating jobs: What are the Economic Strategy Review’s 7 recommendations?

These are crafted from suggestions by businesses and workers over 60 engagements, events and company visits since August

While AI supercharges solution generation, it remains fundamentally limited in its ability to understand context and accurately frame problems, says the writer.

Today’s leaders need to focus on defining problems, not solving them

Are we preparing our workforce for what AI can do, or for what AI cannot do?

Beyond youth and mid-career workers, policymakers are also grappling with mounting labour constraints as Singapore’s population ages.

Budget 2026: Calibrated manpower tweaks likely, not sweeping changes

Calls from business groups must be balanced against longer-term manpower challenges and fiscal constraints, a labour academic says

The guidelines will apply to new courses that aim to develop skills currently in demand as well as renewals seeking SkillsFuture funding.

Training providers face tougher SkillsFuture funding criteria to prioritise industry-relevant skills

New guidelines apply to 500 training providers delivering about 9,500 courses

Nearly half of the workers interviewed fear the nascent technology stands to benefit corporations more than the workforce, the data showed.

Young workers most worried about AI affecting jobs: Randstad survey

FOUR in five workers believe artificial intelligence is going to impact their daily tasks at the workplace, with Gen Z among those most concerned as companies increasingly rely on AI chatbots and auto...