Regarding the future of work, Dr Tan said: "I think the next key disruption is going to be flexible work arrangements. Flexible arrangements are also a good way to bring more people into the workforce, such as women with caregiving responsibilities and mature workers, he said. "So if you add the two groups together with an emboldened, enlightened and optimised flexible work arrangement, we have potentially close to 400,000 people coming back to the workforce. Labour chief Ng Chee Meng noted that as a big employer, NTUC also co-created policies around flexible work arrangements, even as all workers are allowed to return to the workplace. But it added that challenges remain, such as an increasingly diverse workforce that includes gig workers and technological acceleration that can displace more workers.

Source: The Star May 07, 2022 15:40 UTC