Waze, the Google-owned navigation and mapping service, will lay off 5 per cent of its global workforce, said its CEO Noam Bardin in an email announcement to employees. This equates to about 30 people out of its 555-strong global workforce. It did not mention how many of its Singapore staff are …
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Nearly half the workforce of Suntec International Convention and Exhibition Centre (SICEC) will be retrenched. Suntec Singapore jointly announced the news with the Building Construction And Timber Industries Employees’ Union (BATU) yesterday (28 August). The convention centre currently employs 178 staff. After the retrenchment exercise, 85 jobs will be lost …
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This year, Singapore ranked fifth in the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), which ranks the competitiveness of financial centres. There is little doubt that the city state is rising in competitiveness in the financial technology (fintech) sphere, and government support for the sector has been increasing. Yesterday (August 13), the …
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As coronavirus fears hit a high point this week, companies have scrambled to institute new work from home policies. And those policies could become permanent in some cases, substantially altering our work- and life-style landscape in ways none of us would have predicted just a few weeks ago. In at …
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