productivity

SINGAPORE (May 7): With technology evolving faster than many organisations can adapt, it is unsurprising that an increasing proportion of traditional accounting roles may soon be replaced by automation.

SINGAPORE (Dec 20): OCBC is projecting for Singapore’s full year gross domestic product (GDP) to grow by 2-4% in 2018 – a slightly more sanguine estimation compared to the anticipated 3.4% y-o-y growth for this year, amid the broadening domestic gr

SINGAPORE (Dec 14): UOB Kay Hian says Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation (OCBC) leads local banks in cost efficiency with the lowest staff cost per employee at $83,333 and lean other non-wage expenses.

(Nov 13): Last month’s launch of Prudential Singapore’s Fintegrate Partnership, which seeks to collaborate with fintech startups in Singapore and globally, and co-develop digital solutions for customers, is one of many steps that the long-standing ins

SINGAPORE (June 20): Pain conditions are costing Southeast Asian economies about US$44.6 billion ($61.9 billion) in productivity losses on an annual basis – out of which Singapore’s estimated productivity losses make up about US$6.2 billion per year,

TOKYO (Feb 16): Sleep deprivation is doing more harm in Japan than just making people grumpy and unhealthy. It is also holding back the world’s third-largest economy.

SINGAPORE (Jan 5): Changi Airport Group (CAG) has partnered the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to launch a new $50 million programme with the aim of driving innovation for next-generation airport solutions over the next five years.

SINGAPORE (Dec 23): More than five decades after Singapore first successfully adopted an export oriented economic model, it may be time for a change.

SINGAPORE (Nov 15): The world's demographic is in the midst of unravelling as population growth is rapidly declining in the US, Europe, Japan, China and most of Asia, according to the latest data from DBS Group Research. 

SINGAPORE (Sept 29): Singapore is no stranger to disappointing gross domestic product (GDP) growth and alarming unemployment figures of late.