Productivity is a dirty word in Singapore. Employees here already work the longest hours in the world, yet businesses keep getting told they need to be even more productive. So,...

Thought the class of 2016 had it bad? Well, the class of 2017 will be graduating at a time when redundancies are as high as they’ve been in 7 years.

It’s a good thing that the unemployment rate has been so low for so many years. (Even right now, when redundancies are at a 7 year high, the unemployment rate...

China is one of the countries that Singaporeans like to pretend they know. Not only is the majority of our population of Chinese descent, but we live amongst and interact...

Filial piety is highly valued by mainstream society in Singapore. Without a proper pension system, it falls upon adult children to support their parents in old age if the latter...

Networking events are just as awkward and unappealing as Chinese New Year visits to disliked relatives.

Part of being kiasu is doing everything in advance, whether it’s beginning to prepare your kid for Harvard once he turns three, queuing up the night before for the release...

The days when travel agents would sell flight-and-hotel packages are deader than the dinosaurs.

According to some people, credit cards are of the devil. It’s almost if the moment that piece of plastic appears in your wallet, you are doomed right from the start.

Recently, a friend of mine who’s been working at a bank for more than 10 years told me she’s been thinking of alternative career plans in case she gets retrenched.

Feel like a corporate drone? Fit the profile of what they call a “millennial”? Then you must have at some point bought into the narrative about “finding your passion”.

Scrutinise the spending habits of any man on the streets and you’re sure to find items that make you snigger. But hey, just as you might judge somebody for spending...

The Singapore government prides itself on getting things done. It’s transformed the economy over a matter of decades, blah blah. But the one big, glaring failure has been the inability...

There’s a reason Singaporean kids wear such thick glasses and are more likely to be seen labouring over assessment books than frolicking at a playground. The wage gap between degree...

Singaporeans love milestones. The high point in many people’s lives is the day they receive their degree, get married or make that downpayment on their first home.

Despite our small size, that familiar Singaporean accent is often heard in Western European capitals. Singaporeans absolutely adore going to Europe on holiday, at least according to this survey, in...

Ah Boy has an army of tutors towering over him every day after school, making sure he scores those As. His kiasu parents are determined to ensure he gets good...

Unsettled by the fact that Uber and GrabCar are eating into their business, taxi companies have decided that instead of lowering fares and taking a cut of their own profits,...

It’s no secret that we’ve got a fiscally prudent government. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, this is not a government that will spend public money in a way that would...

Dealing with everyone at the office pining for your attention takes up the bulk of your waking life, and with the little time you have left, you try valiantly to...

Work-life balance doesn’t exist in Singapore. If some bosses had their way, you wouldn’t even have a life to balance with your work.

The Singapore education system is great at churning out top-scorers, later to become doctors, lawyers, bankers and civil servants.

According to many Singaporean men, local women have been dealt a good hand of cards because they don’t have to spend two years of their lives doing NS. There have...

Have you complained about your job today? If you haven’t, you must still be sitting for the O levels. Work-related angst comes with the territory of living in Singapore, but...

Mainstream society reigns supreme in Singapore. Doing something as “edgy” as cycling to work gets you raised eyebrows (“not hot meh?”), while bringing your own lunch to work makes colleagues...