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Zawya
7 hours ago
- Business
- Zawya
Adecco Singapore Marks 40 Years of Enabling Talent and Business Growth
SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 23 July 2025 - Adecco Singapore has officially commemorated its 40th anniversary with a stakeholder event held at the National Gallery Singapore. The occasion marked four decades of providing workforce solutions and contributing to Singapore's evolving labour market. Since its founding in 1985, Adecco Singapore has worked with employers and jobseekers across a broad range of industries, supporting workforce development through recruitment, advisory, and outsourcing services. Four Decades of Workforce Support From its beginnings as a staffing agency, Adecco Singapore has expanded into a comprehensive provider of workforce solutions. The company has supported thousands of associates annually and worked with multinational corporations, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and government-linked organisations. Its services have expanded to include permanent recruitment, flexible staffing arrangements, outsourcing, and HR advisory. This growth has aligned with shifts in Singapore's economic strategy and labour market trends. 'Adecco's 40th anniversary is both a milestone and an opportunity to reaffirm our role in Singapore's workforce ecosystem,' said Cindy Lee, Country Manager of Adecco Singapore. 'We remain committed to delivering practical workforce solutions that support business continuity and career development in a changing world of work.' Event Highlights and Recognition The commemorative event brought together Adecco's clients, associates, and partners to express gratitude for their ongoing support. Guest speakers included Kenny Tan, Deputy Secretary (Workforce) at the Ministry of Manpower; Frank Grütter, Swiss Ambassador to Singapore; and other key clients. Speakers highlighted the long-standing partnership between Adecco and various government agencies, associations, and clients. Remarks acknowledged the efforts of Adecco's teams and their commitment to going beyond transactional delivery to meet the needs of clients across various sectors. Following the formal programme, guests attended a networking session over canapes and refreshments. The session provided an opportunity to celebrate the milestone and reaffirm shared goals around workforce resilience, agility, and long-term partnership. Adapting to Workforce Transitions Adecco Singapore has supported businesses through significant shifts in the employment landscape, including digital transformation, pandemic recovery, and the rise of flexible labour models. Its workforce solutions have helped organisations manage short-term operational needs, implement hiring technology, and plan for long-term skills demand. The company's workforce solutions and recruitment services in Singapore continue to play a role in helping employers remain responsive to evolving labour market needs. Positioning for the Future of Work Today, Adecco Singapore maintains a defined service model supported by more than 60 recruiters who specialise by sector and function. The company continues to deliver end-to-end workforce solutions that align with business needs and national workforce developments. Strategically, Adecco is focusing on skills-based hiring and the application of AI-driven talent matching to improve recruitment speed, accuracy, and inclusiveness. These priorities are designed to support workforce planning and help individuals adapt to evolving career pathways. The company also provides structured recruitment advice for jobseekers and employers navigating a fast-changing employment landscape while continuing to support individuals who are looking to find jobs in Singapore that match emerging skills demands. To learn more about Adecco Singapore's services, visit: Hashtag: #Adecco The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. About Adecco Adecco Singapore is part of The Adecco Group, a global provider of HR services and workforce solutions. With local experience spanning four decades, the company supports employers with permanent hiring, temporary staffing, HR outsourcing, and workforce advisory services. Through its group ecosystem, Adecco delivers integrated services to a wide range of sectors across Singapore. Adecco Singapore
Malay Mail
7 hours ago
- Business
- Malay Mail
Adecco Singapore Marks 40 Years of Enabling Talent and Business Growth
Adecco Singapore 40th Anniversary SINGAPORE - Media OutReach Newswire - 23 July 2025 - Adecco Singapore has officially commemorated its 40th anniversary with a stakeholder event held at the National Gallery Singapore. The occasion marked four decades of providing workforce solutions and contributing to Singapore's evolving labour its founding in 1985, Adecco Singapore has worked with employers and jobseekers across a broad range of industries, supporting workforce development through recruitment, advisory, and outsourcing its beginnings as a staffing agency, Adecco Singapore has expanded into a comprehensive provider of workforce solutions. The company has supported thousands of associates annually and worked with multinational corporations, small- and medium-sized enterprises, and government-linked services have expanded to include permanent recruitment, flexible staffing arrangements, outsourcing, and HR advisory. This growth has aligned with shifts in Singapore's economic strategy and labour market trends.'Adecco's 40th anniversary is both a milestone and an opportunity to reaffirm our role in Singapore's workforce ecosystem,' said Cindy Lee, Country Manager of Adecco Singapore. 'We remain committed to delivering practical workforce solutions that support business continuity and career development in a changing world of work.'The commemorative event brought together Adecco's clients, associates, and partners to express gratitude for their ongoing support. Guest speakers included Kenny Tan, Deputy Secretary (Workforce) at the Ministry of Manpower; Frank Grütter, Swiss Ambassador to Singapore; and other key highlighted the long-standing partnership between Adecco and various government agencies, associations, and clients. Remarks acknowledged the efforts of Adecco's teams and their commitment to going beyond transactional delivery to meet the needs of clients across various the formal programme, guests attended a networking session over canapes and refreshments. The session provided an opportunity to celebrate the milestone and reaffirm shared goals around workforce resilience, agility, and long-term Singapore has supported businesses through significant shifts in the employment landscape, including digital transformation, pandemic recovery, and the rise of flexible labour models. Its workforce solutions have helped organisations manage short-term operational needs, implement hiring technology, and plan for long-term skills company's workforce solutions and recruitment services in Singapore continue to play a role in helping employers remain responsive to evolving labour market Adecco Singapore maintains a defined service model supported by more than 60 recruiters who specialise by sector and function. The company continues to deliver end-to-end workforce solutions that align with business needs and national workforce Adecco is focusing on skills-based hiring and the application of AI-driven talent matching to improve recruitment speed, accuracy, and inclusiveness. These priorities are designed to support workforce planning and help individuals adapt to evolving career company also provides structured recruitment advice for jobseekers and employers navigating a fast-changing employment landscape while continuing to support individuals who are looking to find jobs in Singapore that match emerging skills learn more about Adecco Singapore's services, visit: Hashtag: #Adecco The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. About Adecco Adecco Singapore is part of The Adecco Group, a global provider of HR services and workforce solutions. With local experience spanning four decades, the company supports employers with permanent hiring, temporary staffing, HR outsourcing, and workforce advisory services. Through its group ecosystem, Adecco delivers integrated services to a wide range of sectors across Singapore.
The Guardian
15 hours ago
- Business
- The Guardian
The Guardian view on Labour's visa crackdown in social care: another problem for an overstretched system
There are currently around 130,000 vacancies in the social care sector, a higher proportion of unfilled roles than anywhere else in the labour market. According to the industry body Skills for Care, an ageing population means that 540,000 new care workers will be needed by 2040. Finding them, in a sector where employees have historically been grossly underpaid and undervalued, will be one of the challenges of the next decade. Against that disconcerting backdrop, curtailing the practice of hiring care workers from overseas would seem to be – to put it mildly – counterintuitive policymaking. But that is what the government has chosen to do, despite opposition from both Care England and Unison, the biggest union representing health and care workers. On Tuesday, as part of Labour's broader drive to significantly reduce legal migration, the special visa route that allowed international staff to ease a dire recruitment crisis was closed down. Care workers already here on a sponsorship visa will have to stay for 10 years rather than five to win indefinite leave to remain. Justifying the decision, Labour has pointed to evidence of abuse of the visa system by unscrupulous employers. Egregious exploitation of vulnerable workers has undoubtedly taken place, and needs to be fully stamped out. But that could be achieved through better regulation, rather than what amounts to a ban on future hiring from abroad. In truth, the government's motives have more to do with the wider political goal of spiking Reform UK's guns on immigration. The upshot for the social care sector is that institutions already on the edge, as a result of rising costs and understaffing, have lost a potential future lifeline. The number of care workers recruited from overseas had, in any case, already fallen steeply last year after visas for dependants were curtailed. But in a notoriously dysfunctional system, their presence has continued to be indispensable. The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has responded to concerns by arguing that providers will in future have to make a greater effort to attract domestic applicants. In the brave new world envisaged by Ms Cooper, that should lead to a much-needed improvement in pay and working conditions as employers seek to incentivise new recruits. To hasten this process, Labour has proposed measures designed to pave the way for a 'fair pay agreement' in the sector. Such initiatives are long overdue in a historically underunionised environment. But truly transformative change will only come about through the type of central funding settlement that successive governments have promised and then failed to deliver. It is a national disgrace that one in five residential care workers live in poverty, despite performing a vital, often stressful role that requires complex skills. But cash-strapped councils already overwhelmed by the cost of commissioning social care are not in a position to help right that wrong. Labour has charged Dame Louise Casey with coming up with a comprehensive financial solution. But her independent commission into adult social care will not make its final report until 2028, by which time parliament's focus will be entirely on the next election. For the foreseeable future, those requiring the services of Britain's chronically neglected adult social care sector will thus be obliged to take their chances. That makes this week's decision to reject future assistance from overseas look shortsighted at best, and politically cynical at worst.
Zawya
a day ago
- Business
- Zawya
Oman enforces mandatory Professional License for Logistics Sector from September 1
Muscat – In a move aimed at enhancing labour market regulation and boosting professional efficiency, the Ministry of Labour has announced that all designated professions in the logistics sector will require a Professional Practice License starting 1 September 2025. The directive applies to both Omanis and expatriates working in the specified professions across various logistics-related fields. As per the announcement, no work permit will be issued or renewed after the implementation date unless the approved license is submitted. License applications must be submitted electronically through the Sectoral Skills Unit's official platform for the logistics sector via The Ministry has emphasized that establishments not complying with this mandate will face legal and administrative consequences, and that the decision is binding on all businesses and individuals operating in the Sultanate's logistics sector. This step forms part of the Ministry's ongoing effort to ensure that professions are practiced according to approved standards and to strengthen the Sultanate's workforce capabilities. © Apex Press and Publishing Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (
Irish Times
a day ago
- Business
- Irish Times
Tech shocks to industry have only just begun
A few weeks ago, I had one of those 'blink' moments that changed my view of the labour market in the United States . I was in a shipbuilding factory in Marinette, Wisconsin, owned by the Italian company Fincantieri. Among other things they build giant frigates for the US navy, vessels that are more than 400ft long and many stories high. It used to take hundreds of men years to do the kind of metal bending this takes. But in this massive building, a little more than the size of a football field, I counted fewer than two dozen workers. They were directing robotic welding arms to carve massive pieces of steel in a fraction of the time that hand blasting takes. Virtual reality helmets helped them to exactly match construction on new builds to parts yet to be fitted, something that used to involve guesswork and paper blueprints. Even painters were wearing sci-fi type 'exosuits' (think Matt Damon in Elysium) to make their jobs exponentially easier and more comfortable. If this is what's happening in shipbuilding, one of the more antiquated industries around, think about the potential of technology to change the industrial workplace over the next few years. We already know that it has had a greater impact on manufacturing jobs than even outsourcing to China did. The two factors have together radically transformed the employment map of the US. [ Boeing and Intel symbolise America's manufacturing decline Opens in new window ] In 1990, manufacturing was the biggest employer in most states. Today, it's top only in Wisconsin, Michigan, Iowa, Alabama, Kentucky and my own home state of Indiana. The latest jobs figures from June show manufacturing employment as flat, despite all the president's talk about reshoring. While some of this might be about tariffs, I think it's more about the changing nature of industrial employment. Factory jobs are fewer, but much better than they used to be when I was hanging out in the crowded, relatively low-tech electronic component facilities my father ran decades ago for companies such as United Technologies. David McWilliams on how 'big incentives' to build could save Dublin city Listen | 36:51 The employees I met in Marinette were working more at the level of engineers than machinists. They were involved in product innovation, research and the training of new workers, something that is transformed by technology – it now takes days rather than months to get a new welder up to speed using robotic equipment. But it also takes investment, and that's something not every company has been willing or able to make. Fincantieri poured almost a billion dollars in capex into its Wisconsin facilities over 15 years, and the long-term security of defence contracts (which extend over years or even decades) have made that a good bet. The company now employs 2,500 people in a town of roughly 11,000, with a large multiplier effect. For every Fincantieri job in the region, eight others are supported in areas such as the company's supply chain, housing and construction, services and the public sector. This kind of technology deployment is not present in every shipbuilding business, or indeed in most industrial companies. There is a superstar effect in terms of technology investment in manufacturing, which tends to be concentrated among standout businesses, and in particular industries – the automotive sector is highly automated, for example, while areas such as food production, mining and textiles are less so. Greater dissemination of technology across industries and companies of all sizes is crucial because tech-based productivity increases are the only way for the manufacturing sector in a country such as the US to compete with China or other nations that have cheaper labour costs. While building ships or chips or even cars in the US isn't going to replace the jobs of the 1990s, it's important to keep a healthy level of industrial production in large regionalised economies (the Americas, Europe and China would all fit that description) for national security and resiliency. Supply chain disruptions happen for all kinds of reasons, and the world shouldn't put all its eggs in one basket. That said, the changing nature and number of manufacturing jobs raises important questions about where labour market growth will come from. In the US, healthcare has replaced manufacturing over the last three decades as the top employer in most states. Some of this is down to the fact that Americans are getting older and richer and spending more on medical treatment. Some of it is because they are fatter and less healthy than they should be and have a highly inefficient and fragmented healthcare industry that incentivises expensive procedures and medications rather than prevention. And some of it is down to the fact that healthcare can't, in most cases, be outsourced. But an increasing number of healthcare jobs can be improved or even replaced by technology. And here, changes in the manufacturing sector provide a window into what is coming down the pike for America's fastest-growing industry. Healthcare costs in the US are high and growing faster than overall inflation. Service quality is quite mixed, and workers are both in short supply and less well trained than they should be. Technology penetration is low. My guess is that this will present an opportunity for artificial intelligence . Doctors may be the shipbuilders of the future, in a labour market that will be defined – as it always has been – by technology disruption. – Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2025
