Corporate culture

Poor liquidity? Share 3-5 year plan with investors, Koh Boon Hwee urges listco chairs

2026-10-01T05:55:55.000Z
The study found that high-paying and high-revenue firms devoted more resources on meetings “despite facing a substantially higher opportunity cost of employee time”.
THINKING ALOUD

Meetings are time-consuming, but might be good for you

2026-09-29T23:00:00.000Z
Credible leaders should explain how AI is expected to affect tasks and roles – who will be affected, and by roughly when – before speculation fills the gap.
THE BROAD VIEW

The next AI bottleneck is leadership credibility

2026-09-25T23:00:00.000Z
To bosses from older generations, bringing an iced coffee to a job interview can signal a complete lack of understanding of the workplace’s unwritten rules.

The workplace war over iced coffee reveals a bigger issue

2026-09-25T08:01:01.000Z
The term “queen bee” first appeared in a 1973 study, where it was used to describe a woman who stings others to protect her throne, and who blames other women for their own failings in being unable to climb the career ladder.
THE BROAD VIEW

Workplaces are enabling the ‘queen bee syndrome’ – and it is holding women back

2026-08-14T23:00:00.000Z
Psychologists have long distinguished solitude from loneliness. Loneliness is unwanted isolation. Solitude is chosen aloneness – and increasingly recognised as restorative rather than harmful.
SWITCHING LANES

What I’ve learnt from solitude in retirement

2026-07-31T23:00:00.000Z
More than nine in 10 Singapore workers in a 2024 survey said they had worked outside of their official hours.
THINKING ALOUD

Unplugging from the Internet is becoming a luxury good

2026-07-20T23:00:00.000Z
MAS held a consultation late last year on proposals to enable investors to seek compensation for losses due to market misconduct under the Securities and Futures Act.
MARK TO MARKET

Culture shift needed to curb controlling shareholders’ ‘long shadow’, boost investor confidence

2026-07-12T13:57:47.000Z
People experience the organisation largely through their supervisors. 
THE BOTTOM LINE

The solution to employee disengagement is human

2026-07-01T23:00:00.000Z
Employees may grumble about long hours, difficult clients or demanding deadlines, but often the biggest push factor is how they are treated.
THINKING ALOUD

What makes a good job? Feeling that you matter

2026-07-01T23:00:00.000Z