Janice Heng

Nov 19, 2024 | businesstimes.com.sg | Janice Heng

In today’s labour market, employers have indisputable power to bring employees back to office. But should they? Published Wed, Nov 20, 2024 · 05:00 AMEARLY in the post-pandemic era, the nature of office work seemed to have changed for good. Covid-19 had shown that desk-bound work could be performed from a desk anywhere. The work-from-home revolution seemed so entrenched that it fuelled worries about the fate of commercial landlords and thinkpieces about the demise of central business districts.

Oct 16, 2024 | businesstimes.com.sg | Janice Heng

As the government has warned, the costs of demographic change will be borne by society as a wholePublished Thu, Oct 17, 2024 · 05:00 AMTUESDAY’S announcement of upcoming hikes in MediShield Life premiums might have been unwelcome to some, but is perhaps not much of a surprise. The hike in premiums is to support the raising of claim limits, in tandem with rising healthcare costs – and the issue of rising healthcare costs is far from new.

Sep 4, 2024 | businesstimes.com.sg | Janice Heng

Domestic considerations will continue to dominate Singapore’s upcoming monetary policy move in OctoberPublished Thu, Sep 5, 2024 · 05:00 AMWITH the US Federal Reserve having strongly telegraphed impending interest rate cuts at their mid-September meeting, one question is how Asian central banks will react. The expectation is that the Fed’s move will create space for monetary easing by other central banks, though not all of them might take the opportunity.

Aug 18, 2024 | businesstimes.com.sg | Janice Heng

Lawrence Wong’s first National Day Rally eschewed technical policy justifications in favour of a personal framingPublished Mon, Aug 19, 2024 · 04:12 PM‘PERSONABLE’ and ‘personal’ are swiftly becoming go-to descriptors of newly-minted Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s style. Both attributes were on display in his first National Day Rally (NDR) on Sunday (Aug 18), from his friendly manner to the photographs he shared, depicting him at various points from childhood through to his public service career.

Aug 18, 2024 | businesstimes.com.sg | Janice Heng

FROM mid-2025, singles and their parents who want to live near or with one another will get priority for Build-to-Order (BTO) public flats, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said in his first National Day Rally on Sunday (Aug 18). Currently, such priority is given to married couples and their parents who are buying BTO flats to live together or close to one another. “We do this to make it easier for families to look after one another,” said PM Wong. “I think we shouldn’t limit this to married children.