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Singapore workers’ mental health improves amid looming financial anxiety

Survey finds that two-thirds of workers are worried they cannot financially support their everyday needs

The team that created mental wellness app Someone comprised: (from left) Ng Jia Wei, Tay Yong Jun, Tay Jeung Hong, Christian Candelario, Goh Jia Rui, Mohamed Fawaz
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

Dell InnovateFest 2025 uses AI to address mental health issues

The inter-tertiary school competition promotes AI skills and innovation

For the retrenched, a layoff is more than a loss of income. It is a rupture in identity, security and purpose.
Opinion & Features

The axe of retrenchment

Addressing the psychological cost of layoffs when it cuts more ways than one

Among executives, the symptoms of burnout are often dangerously mislabelled: The irritable chief executive is “passionate”. The indecisive chief financial officer is “deliberate”. The disengaged head of innovation is “delegating”.
Opinion & Features

The unseen leadership crisis: executive burnout

When the captain is frantic, the entire crew is at risk of drowning

Host Claressa Monteiro (left) in conversation with Minister Ong Ye Kung (right).
Podcasts

Singapore Is Ageing. Are We Ready? — Ong Ye Kung on Health, Purpose and the Road Ahead

What does ageing with dignity really mean in Singapore? Minister Ong Ye Kung joins Claressa Monteiro to unpack health, inclusion, and purpose in our rapidly greying nation.

Generation X and millennials have slid into mid-life malaise earlier than boomers did, and Generation Z are starting their adult life far more miserable than any generation before.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable

Youth used to be cheerful. No more

Mental health and well-being is not a benevolent add-on. It is a risk multiplier. High attrition, diminished innovation, stigma and burnout generate real financial exposure.
Opinion & Features

The ‘S’ in ESG must stand for social well-being that includes mental health

It’s time for corporations to recognise the strategic and ethical significance of mental wellness – and remedy its persistent neglect.

Employers must recognise and treat AI-related stress as a workplace hazard. Access to mental health programmes, therapists and peer support networks can help employees navigate this AI-induced uncertainty.
Opinion & Features

Taming the AI ‘beast’ without losing ourselves

Artificial intelligence can drive progress without eroding mental well-being, but only if we act deliberately and intentionally

A formalised registration system would primarily serve to protect patients from such abuse, say psychologists.
Opinion & Features
BRUNCH

The (licensed) psychologist will see you now

Singapore’s push to license psychologists aims to protect patients, but practitioners worry that strict qualification requirements will exacerbate existing service shortages

By prioritising mental health at the highest level, boards can drive meaningful changes, foster a supportive work environment and, more importantly, enhance organisational performance.
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

Boards and mental health: An opportunity for greater business success

Leadership with empathy and a strategic vision for employees will secure a critical advantage for organisations

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