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The WFH new normal has cast a different light on on-the-job learning

Vivien Ang

Published Fri, Jun 26, 2020 · 09:50 PM

IT'S 11pm. The cursor on my computer screen is spinning endlessly, whirling into the "circle of death", as a colleague coined it. The clock is ticking, the night's deadline is looming. The technology gods have clearly forsaken me at the eleventh hour.

As the screen continued in its cryonic state, I let out a hiss of expletive before resigning to fate. I attempted the foolproof method of rebooting the system, and crossed my fingers and toes that it would work - which it did, after the second attempt.

There's no denying that technology has been the great enabler in our time of crisis-driven need. And never have we felt more at the mercy of the tech gods than we do now.

As Eric Goh, vice-president & managing director, Singapore, Dell Technologies, puts it: "The past months have shown that not only are we learning that technology can replicate some of the offline experiences, it has also been successful in doing so. The level of activities speaks volumes about the important role of technology and its abilit…