Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are crucial to Singapore's economy, representing 99% of all enterprises and employing 71% of the workforce. The Pulse of SMEs explores Singapore’s workforce landscape with a focus on SME employees’ career needs, aspirations, and challenges. It identifies where SMEs are facing difficulties or making strides in upskilling, motivating, and retaining talent. The study adopts a strengths-based perspective and applies archetypal analysis, segmenting organisations into four archetypes based on company types, employee size, and self-reported perception of their organisational growth.

Human capital is one of the most important resources in Singapore’s strategic economic plan. Accordingly, to drive higher productivity and economic growth, Singapore must support the health, resilience, and well-being of workers. This mixed-methods approach study investigates the well-being of workers in Singapore and seeks to understand the factors affecting worker well-being to provide appropriate support.

Freelancers & Self-Employed (FSE) professionals represent a growing yet underserved and understudied segment of the workforce. This study adopts a holistic, cross-industry approach to surface "Jobs-to-be-Done" (JTBD) to support FSEs in their pursuit of career growth progression. Our findings reveal opportunities for NTUC and the Labour Movement in Singapore to shape services and policies that address shared pain points beyond predefined worker categories.

The workplace in Singapore has evolved and work arrangements have shifted away from the traditional on-site, fixed-time, and fixed-workload structure. Over the years, NTUC has championed flexibility at work as a means of improving welfare for employees as well as supporting individuals with caregiving responsibilities. This Briefing Paper seeks to provide insights and case studies into how Flexible Work Arrangements (FWAs) can be implemented in a way that is a win-win for both companies and employees through three behaviourally informed recommendations.

As Singapore's manufacturing faces renewed strengths and threats in a changing post-pandemic world, this study seeks to gather insights on how these challenges could affect the opportunities available for workers in the manufacturing sector here. This study also suggests how workers can navigate opportunities and risks by securing necessary skills to create strategic advantages in the sector.