23 May 2020 (12pm - 8pm)
REACH
[11:30 am, 31/05/2020] : [Sent by Gov.sg – 31 May]
COVID-19: Work From Home (WFH) in Phases One & Two
WFH is the default
πΌ Go to office only if you must
Workplace social gatherings cancelled/deferred:
π eg. Team-bondings
π ♂ Gathering in groups, eg. during meals or breaks
π ♀ Socialising physically within or outside working hours
Use SafeEntry, make health declarations before entering workplaces
π· Wear masks at all times
Go.gov.sg/mom-smm
[12:08 pm, 31/05/2020]
Dear contributors, welcome back!
⏰This chat will be open till 8pm.
The Government is focusing on securing jobs and businesses.
It has secured about S$13 billion in investment commitments in first 4 months of 2020, which will generate thousands of jobs in sectors such as electronics and chemicals.
The Government will also help companies hire ahead and work with trade associations and chambers to increase the number of apprenticeships in various growth sectors for both fresh graduates, as well as those going through mid-career transitions.
Speaking at a virtual press conference yesterday, Trade and Industry Minister Chan Chun Sing said, “We are quite clear that we will not be able to preserve every job in the whole economy, but we are determined to make sure that we can help every Singaporean and businesses transit to the new equilibrium, or the new normal as we call it.”
π’Topic:π’
There will be job displacement from old industries into new ones, requiring retraining and upskilling for workers.
What can we do to adjust our mindset, for example, towards retraining and upskilling, to stay relevant and employable?
π https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-edb-singapore-investments-coronavirus-surpass-projected-12786876
π https://www.facebook.com/ChanChunSing.SG/posts/3225377807514180
Bobby Tan
[12:16 pm, 31/05/2020] : Everyone must understand that regardless how good you are, you still need to upgrade or learn another skill set, in order to survive now or near future. IT and mobile app are something we should endeavour to keep learning and keep exploring. Even if now we out of job, don’t despair and should keep on learning some productivity skill training. This may land you in next job.
[12:17 pm, 31/05/2020] : Also wearing of mask or face shield should become a culture rather than a law. This will help to prevent getting viruses from others. We all should adopt heathy life style and exercising.
[12:24 pm, 31/05/2020] ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Retraining, reskilling and continuous life long learning - must be inherent mindset of any workers as technology evolved and new ways of doing business keep evolving.
Ben
[12:57 pm, 31/05/2020] : Yes agreed - who has determined what training, for who and why?
[2:46 pm, 31/05/2020] ☸️ Danny εΏ:
1. Business owner must not only indulge in day to day running of their business.
Business owner must periodically take a step back to think strategically to size up their business, competition, business trends and many other factors that could impact their business.
Business owner must strategically see how best to exploit technologies to boost their business growth and profit - as well as to retrain their workers to operate the new automation, new technologies, new processess etc.
So who determine the required skills for training - the owners, the staff, and b training partners.
2. For workers who work in companies who always looking for ways to train their staff as part of annual KPI build into their job scope - workers can work with their superiors or boss to work out a career training plan.
3. For workers working in companies that do not have training plan for their staff, workers must take their own initiatives to find out those technologies, skillsets or training that will help them in their current career or future careers.
4. For those who have no ideas what training is most relevant to them, then get help from career coaches to find out what jobs are there, what skillsets are required, consider whether they have the interest, capabiliities to get themselves train up for the jobs such as through Train-and-placement programme, internships, train-and-work etc.
Boon Phing
[12:30 pm, 31/05/2020] : Is there any breakdown of the kind of jobs to be offered, and conditions on the hiring process?
Ben
[12:56 pm, 31/05/2020] : It's amazing to see all this money pumped into the economy and where it is intended. Would love to see feedback on where it is actually spent and the results of it.
[12:57 pm, 31/05/2020] : How is it being measured? What are the KPIs? Who is in charge of each sector? How is it being monitored? Plenty of opportunity for abuse once it leaves the government and is put in the hands of .....?
Thomas
[1:04 pm, 31/05/2020] : One criticism of current ITM framework is too broad and curriculum based like University or Poly curriculum shortened for working adults. Should look at Australia type where they are focus on particular deep skills to achieve on one standard before progressing to another standard in the same family of say a electrician. They don’t look at jobs but specific skills set need to achieve to reach professional electrical engineer
Leonard Lau
[1:08 pm, 31/05/2020] : Pro and con aside .. but the key concerns for Labour is skill portability in today context .
REACH
[2:09 pm, 31/05/2020] : https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-sg-digital-office-to-encourage-digitalisation-among-seniors-and-Hawkers
CQ
[2:29 pm, 31/05/2020] : (1) Time invested: Employers should not frown upon the time off taken by staff for training purposes, which in turns causes staff to be afraid to ask their bosses for time off.
(2) "Level up": When a staff has completed a course in a field relevant to his/her work, the company can assign the staff tasks which allow them to put what they have learnt into practice, and with a job well done, consider the employee's prospects for promotion or pay increment.
(3) Wider scope of what is considered "relevant field of work": Some employers tend to consider what is relevant in a very narrow sense, eg if you're working in IT, there is no reason for you to be taking up a course in project management for example. Not to say that all courses should be considered relevant, but managers should be flexible to consider courses which offer tangential benefits to the company as a whole.
(4) Increased intra-company mobility: This is less relevant for SMEs (where everyone does a bit of everything) but more for bigger companies where you have different roles. Managers can encourage retraining, or facilitate mobility by requiring the staff to undergo reskilling training. If managers are concerned about the staff leaving, there are always contractual options where company agrees to pay for the training costs and in turn, the staff has to remain with the company for a minimum period (eg 6 to 12 months), otherwise the staff has to pay the company for the full fees of retraining.
(5) Staff's perspective: Most people wouldn't want to invest the time, money and effort to re-skill if it does not entail better pay or better job prospects. Therefore the training courses should be a viable means to providing that next step up. The singapore employer culture still focuses heavily on paper qualification, thus one thing to consider is increased recognition for training certificates (which also means that the testing and certification need to become more rigorous).
Leonard Lau
[2:34 pm, 31/05/2020] : I attend training mostly using personal funds ; It is known that company sponsored adult students are lesser motivated . This is something we need to addressed as well .
Alvin
[2:40 pm, 31/05/2020] : π’Topic:π’
There will be job displacement from old industries into new ones, requiring retraining and upskilling for workers.
What can we do to adjust our mindset, for example, towards retraining and upskilling, to stay relevant and employable?
Firstly, everyone and anyone can preach about going for retraining and upskilling etc but I’ll like to see leaders of industry or chiefs do that themselves too. If not, set the standard to give upgraders or ppl with no experience a chance to new job openings.
Secondly, we have been putting emphasis on management for too long. Our de facto for getting higher pay is to move ppl into management and many are in those areas wasting their talents. SHIFT the focus into technical, hands-on or service roles and pay them highly. Encourage industry leaders to do that too and you should be a gradual increase in efficiency as more local ppl move into those roles. Unless you have a mega project that requires intense concentration and focus (or you need to instruct blue collar workers on their daily jobs), management roles should slowly be automated away.
Lastly, I’ll get hate for saying this but I’ll say it again anyway. DO NOT try to save businesses whose business model can’t be saved and they will eventually fold up anyway!!! Don’t waste taxpayers money on those SMEs who are unable to pivot. Even if we reopen etc there will be thousands of businesses that will close down. Don’t try to save them all, gov is already doing a good job trying to slow things down for revenue losses but time for mercy is over. Those business leaders will plea and beg for more help but don’t allow that. Many of them are stuck to the old ways of doing things and will never change. If gov decides to help, they should “own” some equity of the firm and have a major say in how things are run.
My 2.14 cents
CQ
[2:50 pm, 31/05/2020] : Likewise, I've spent my own money and used annual leave to attend seminars and trainings. Only cos some managers frown on "absence".
I can see your point about the company-sponsorship and lower motivation. I think it has to be a 2-way thing. The staff must want to be trained and the company must impose certain parameters Eg whether you need to hit a certain grade, attendance requirements, or as I mentioned, a bond period maybe. Some employers are damn scared that their staff will jump ship after they invested in their training. That's also one mindset which needs to change. People move around for various reasons, but if you don't invest in your staff, it's your own business that suffers in the long run.
Harry
[2:54 pm, 31/05/2020] : Skillsfuture training should go home based learning where it can.
Leonard Lau
[3:00 pm, 31/05/2020] : As I see it , Personal attitude in Learning must improve first . This will drive employers to adapt along .
Many course are affordable these days via e-training plus lots of subsidies and also there is income tax relief for training .. conditions are
already there for the takings
[3:01 pm, 31/05/2020] : Some courses are already home based but not all skill trainings can be home based also
CQ
[3:04 pm, 31/05/2020] : Personal attitude does need to change. Perhaps by applying motivation techniques, thus the increase in pay, assigning challenging tasks etc etc?
[3:05 pm, 31/05/2020] : Have to recognise that there will always be people who are contented to just cruise along though.. Somehow that natural "strata" always forms itself.
REACH
[3:21 pm, 31/05/2020] : Singapore reports 518 new COVID-19 cases
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/moh-new-covid-19-cases-may-31-12788564
[3:41 pm, 31/05/2020] : [Sent by Gov.sg – 31 May]
As of 12pm, MOH has preliminarily confirmed an additional 518 cases of COVID-19 infection in Singapore.
Majority are Work Permit holders residing in foreign worker dormitories.
Based on investigations so far, 3 are cases in the community (3 Singaporeans/PRs).
MOH will share further updates in its press release that will be issued later tonight.
go.gov.sg/moh31mayupdate
REACH
[4:06 pm, 31/05/2020] :
Iswaran - With covid-19, digitalisation is imperative
https://www.facebook.com/145462252193638/posts/3894490710624088/
Rama
[4:09 pm, 31/05/2020] : Mindset have to go change as the virus has caught both employers and employees off guard !
Caleb
[4:21 pm, 31/05/2020] :
Long queue at Lucky Plaza Orchard - thanks to sales
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=653559668706467&id=166119094117196&sfnsn=mo
[4:21 pm, 31/05/2020] : where all the SDAs and SPFs?
[4:23 pm, 31/05/2020] ☸️ Danny εΏ:
This AMK hub have been max out 100% crowd for the past few days.
Desmond Koh
[4:40 pm, 31/05/2020] : with the public officers to return to their normal duties, with the lack of enforcement officer, it will get more worst haha
[4:42 pm, 31/05/2020] +65 9181 1570: https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/hiring-safe-distancing-ambassadors-enforcement-officers-continue-after-circuit-breaker
NEW HIRES NEEDED AS PUBLIC OFFICERS RETURN TO DUTIES
MEWR said that more than 65 public agencies are involved with enforcement work on the ground, and many of the ambassadors and enforcement officers are also public officers juggling regular duties with enforcement work.
REACH
[5:04 pm, 31/05/2020] : ERP charges to remain suspended until at least Jun 28: LTA
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-erp-charges-gantry-suspended-jun-28-lta-review-12788868
REACH
[5:08 pm, 31/05/2020] : Coronavirus: Companies are short of manpower, workers miss their loved ones
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/workers-companies-are-short-of-manpower-workers-miss-their-loved-ones?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-05-31%2017%3A05%3A38
Caleb
[6:08 pm, 31/05/2020] :
Future of dine-in
https://www.instagram.com/p/CA2ESFsgaHo/?igshid=zdtdchd3hgyx
Anne
[6:31 pm, 31/05/2020] : I do this too! The courses I attend mostly have nothing to do with my job. They are mainly for my side hustles and personal development. I also purchase a lot of Udemy courses in various topics when they go on sale (like $14.99). I also made some new friends. As a result of these courses and friends, I not only learn new skills, my mind became more open to new ideas as well.
Leonard Lau
[7:09 pm, 31/05/2020] : Well said Anne . This is what life-learning is all about . Besides , many courses are going free and just need to pay if one needs its certification. These are good courses especially offered by Ivy League universities .
Importantly , the interaction with people overseas , it’s seriously an eye opener.
Caleb
[6:57 pm, 31/05/2020] : Guess alot on cabin fever
[6:58 pm, 31/05/2020] : All go out which is only supermarket and food stalls are open
[6:58 pm, 31/05/2020] ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Comments from my close friends :-
(1) Every country is in a trial and error mode to contain the spread of covid 19 and re-opening of economy. Let's accept that the road ahead is bumpy.
(2) Rather than assume life will return to normalcy, there will be things/activities that will return to pre-pandemic state but there will be new habits that emerged.
(3) For eg. This few pictures above that provide plastic as a shield will help to protect dine in patron if government find it useful.
(4) Be positive, within our profession and sphere of influence what new habits are developing? This is our opportunity space. The sooner we innovate to capture this space, the higher our likelihood to become winners in the post pandemic era.
(5) Majulah Singapore!
[7:00 pm, 31/05/2020] ☸️ Danny εΏ:
They are good examples of how to protect the customers, workers and their business.
People will be more confident to go out to dine
REACH
[6:58 pm, 31/05/2020] +65 8637 0487: MSF-funded services to gradually resume from June 2; over 50,000 applications for Covid-19 Support Grant received
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/msf-funded-services-to-gradually-resume-from-june-2-over-50000-applications-for-covid-19?xtor=CS3-18&utm_source=STiPhone&utm_medium=share&utm_term=2020-05-31%2018%3A05%3A18
REACH
[7:33 pm, 31/05/2020] : Stallholders, seniors to get help going online from 1,000 'digital ambassadors' at new SG Digital Office
https://bit.ly/2TUPCN0
REACH
[7:33 pm, 31/05/2020] : Stallholders, seniors to get help going online from 1,000 'digital ambassadors' at new SG Digital Office
https://bit.ly/2TUPCN0
Ben
[7:50 pm, 31/05/2020] : I attended subsidised training using my skillet fund. I was very appreciative and learnt new skills to go in a new direction at a time my industry is shut down. I agree some might not be motivated if they don't pay, but I found everyone else on the course very engaged and pleased to be learning.
[7:50 pm, 31/05/2020] : This is great, well done to those involved.
[7:51 pm, 31/05/2020] : Yes agreed. Life long learning and overseas interaction are a positive by-product of the CB during Covid.
REACH
[7:52 pm, 31/05/2020] : Hello REACH Contributors!
⏰ We will be closing the chat in 10 minutes ⏰
As always, thank you very much for being part of our WhatsApp chat and participating actively.
Goodnight! π΄
- Megan
Leonard Lau
[7:53 pm, 31/05/2020] : That’s why company led training has to be tweak so that their employee are motivate when attending classes.
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