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‘Even if you have a crummy job, you can have a meaningful life’: design thinking guru Bill Burnett

Bill Burnett says the "meaning crisis" people face today inspired his new book, How to Live a Meaningful Life: Using Design Thinking to Unlock Purpose, Joy, and Flow Every Day.

How to survive AI at work? Drop the rigid job titles

We need to rethink how work itself is designed and organised, the writer says, with a new approach he calls “fractional” job design.

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Back, bolder and hired: A guide to turning your career break into your next big opportunity

job seeker mum returning to work after a career break, show transferable skills to employers

To win the AI adoption race, Singapore must mind the social class and gender gaps

Singapore is among a growing pack of nations jostling to get ahead in AI diffusion.

Commentary

Budget 2026: Singapore’s SkillsFuture reset must go beyond just AI readiness

PM Lawrence Wong announced during Budget 2026 that Workforce Singapore and SkillsFuture Singapore would be merged into a single agency overseeing skills training, career guidance and job matching services.

SkillsFuture Singapore, Workforce Singapore to merge into new statutory board

The move aims to create a more integrated ecosystem for jobs and skills, and one that can better respond better as the economy faces rapid structural shifts.

AI jolts are coming for Singapore’s workers, warns ‘Great Resignation’ professor

Jolts, said organisational psychologist Anthony Klotz, are events that make us re-examine our relationship with our work.

Singapore workers feel trapped over mismatch in expectations amid ‘job-hugging’ trend: Experts

Singapore workers are bidding their time for the right time and opportunity to move, said employment experts.

Behind job losses are real people. Companies need to remember that

This year alone, Singapore has seen a string of corporate “earthquakes”.

More technology, higher pay draw younger and more Singaporeans to lift industry

Award recipients of the inaugural Lift and Escalator (L&E) Excellence Awards Mr Ganesh Prasad Vasudevan (left), a troubleshooter at KONE, and Mr Muhammad Zulkarnaen Hashim, a senior L&E specialist at Hitachi Elevator Asia.

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