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Chart of the Day: Q2 manufacturing employment falls for fifteenth straight quarter
Chart of the Day: Q2 manufacturing employment falls for fifteenth straight quarter
Blame crippling conditions in the marine & offshore engineering segment.
Daily Briefing: Singapore bank headcount up by 4,541 in H2; Golden Gate Ventures unveils US$10m crypto fund
And Carousell expands its meet-up feature to the Philippines.
HRtech gains ground as Singaporeans embrace mobile in job hunting
Nearly a fourth have relied on a smartphone app to apply.
Retail and wealth banks shun digital as they ramp up hiring in Q2
Relationship managers in bancassurance were in hot demand.
Chart of the Day: See the declining trend in Singapore employees' working hours
They may approach a five-hour decrease to a 41.9 hours from the usual 45-hour work week by 2030.
Participation in work-related learning jumped to 48% in 2018
Over 11,000 already joined the government’s SkillsFuture Series.
Chart of the Day: Here's why retrenchments rose in Q2
Some firms have on-going restructuring and reorganisation.
More Singapore firms have women in their boards
All-male boards for Top 100 firms declined to 27% in June.
Unemployment rate rose 2.1% in Q2
Retrenchments inched up to 2,500 from 2,320 in Q1.
Daily Briefing: NTUC chief urges employers to raise retirement age; GIC to buy minority stake in a Spanish telco
And Tre Ver condo prices will be discounted amidst property curbs.
Keppel Capital and MindChamps to raise $200m for education real estate fund
It will invest in preschool and early learning real estate assets in the Asia Pacific.
Developed Asian markets could slash working hours by 2030
Technological advancements and higher incomes could fuel this change.
4 in 5 Singapore employees want flexi work
But 55% fear it will interfere with personal time.
Chart of the Day: Singapore labour market pressure down in 2017
This also reflected in the total unemployment rate, which fell from about 2.2% in H1 to 2.1% in H2.
The search is on for Singapore's most outstanding business leaders at the SBR Management Excellence Awards 2018
The deadline for entry submissions is on 5 October.
Singapore is the seventh most sought-after city for global workers
Local businessmen think that tax and cost of living could make workers think twice about moving to the Lion City.
Online hiring in Singapore up 3% in May
The BFSI sector saw a 19% growth in e-hiring activities.
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