Work-Life Balance

SWITCHING LANES

Start planning your life, not just retirement

Don’t wait till your work life ends to live out your priorities

In an era of longevity and shifting work norms, the question is no longer how to stop working - but how to start living differently.
SWITCHING LANES

Retirement isn’t a finale – it’s a strategic pivot

Instead of treating retirement as the end of a long corporate climb, we should view it as a transition into a new, self-directed phase of life

Decision fatigue, emotional exhaustion and disengagement are frequent companions to senior roles, says the writer.

Boundary-led leadership: Why saying ‘no’ is a strategic advantage

Organisations led by leaders who can set boundaries decisively tend to outperform those driven by chronic overextension

People ride their bikes down the street in Dokkum, the Netherlands. It has become increasingly common for full-time workers in the country to compress their hours into four days rather than spread them over five.
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