Work-Life Balance

THE BOTTOM LINE

The Dutch are quietly shifting towards a four-day work week

The Netherlands serves as a case study for the advantages and trade-offs of reduced hours in the workplace

Changi Airport Group claims the top spot in Randstad’s pick of best employers for the third time.

Changi Airport tops list of best Singapore employers to work for in 2025: Randstad study

Singapore’s three banks, ST Engineering, CapitaLand and Sea are among the most attractive companies to work for in the city-state this year

A recent Microsoft report found that 40% of Microsoft 365 users online at 6 am are already scanning their e-mails – and that an average worker will receive 117 e-mails before the clock rolls around to midnight.

Always on, always tired, sometimes rude

How to avoid the ‘triple-peak trap’ of modern work

Work-life balance is also the key motivator for employees to switch jobs, the survey notes.

Singaporeans value work-life balance most in an ‘ideal employer’: Randstad survey

This remains the most attractive trait for a third straight year, ahead of salary and job security

From right: Khairul Mohd Khair, head of people and organisational development at Stroke Support Station; Dione Song, chief executive of Love, Bonito; lawyer, poet and playwright Amanda Chong; and BT young audience editor Vivien Shiao at the panel discussion.

Want work-life balance? You have to make sacrifices, say panellists at dialogue on careers

Attendees at the event hosted by thrive, The Business Times’ young audience initiative, are given food for thought on finding meaning in work

Three fifths of the UK workforce reported tight deadlines and two-fifths had to work at high speed, among the largest proportions in Europe, while only a third could choose the pace at which they worked, the report said

UK workers face some of Europe’s greatest job stress: report

BRITISH workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive, according to a report prepared as the new Labour government p...

From January 2025, Amazon’s corporate employees are to return to a five-day workweek in the office – up from three days a week.
THINKING ALOUD

Return to office: The writing is on the wall of your cubicle

Write all the open letters you want, but do it from the office

The allure of finishing “just one more task” can prevent employees from truly enjoying their surroundings, potentially leading to exhaustion instead of rejuvenation.

No time for a holiday? A ‘workation’ could be the answer

A mix of work and vacation can be appealing to both employees and companies, but there are challenges too

Some participants in the four-day work week trial express concerns about how the loss of a workday reduced their flexibility to cope with unpredictable events.

Once you try a four-day work week, it’s hard to go back

GERMANY’S brief experiment with a four-day work week is over, but for many of the businesses that participated, there’s no going back. “I don’t want to work on Fridays any more. I just don’t,” says So...

Miami, newly flush with major corporations, has seen a bigger office comeback post-Covid than almost any other American city, according to data from Placer.ai, a startup that measures foot traffic to offices.

In the new Miami, the old office culture reigns

How a tech and finance boom brought workers back to the office. It might just be the future of work for all of us