Future of Work

The Vietnam Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (VAMRC), a joint project of Vietnam and Singapore, is set to develop automation, robotics, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, factory digital transformation, green manufacturing, and supply chain resilience.

France's Thales, Singapore's Singtel, Optus, AIS, and Globe Telecom have deployed a multi-operator enterprise eSIM connectivity network for the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling enterprises to remotely manage connected devices across multiple countries and networks through a single centralized platform.

Only 29 percent of Singapore desk workers identify as AI sceptics, well below the global average of 37 percent and significantly lower than 53 percent in the United States, United Kingdom, and France.

Rather than reducing the importance of human creativity, AI will increase it. That starts with mindset: encouraging curiosity, rewarding experimentation and giving people the confidence to explore what these tools can do.

As many as 73 percent of employees across Southeast Asia feel that leadership is disconnected from their digital needs, as digital transformation is being done to employees rather than with them.

As many as 72 percent of organizations in the Philippines have already deployed or are piloting artificial intelligence (AI), yet only 17 percent say they can recruit and retain enough AI-skilled talent.

Vinmec Healthcare System, under Vietnam's conglomerate Vingroup, has launched a nationwide network of High-Tech Robotic Surgery Centers, establishing Vietnam's first multi-connected robotic surgery ecosystem that links multiple robotic technologies across its hospital network.

Across Global Business Services, the centralized finance, HR, and IT operations that serve much of the corporate world, and a major professional employer in Malaysia, job descriptions have quietly fallen out of step with what the work now demands.

The Netherlands-based AI company Wonderful is expanding its Singapore operations as part of its push to help enterprises scale AI adoption beyond pilot projects, with Alexander Kleinberg joining as General Manager, Singapore.

Workers aged 18 to 26 in Singapore are the least frequent daily users of AI among all age groups, at 20 percent, trailing those aged 27 to 39 at 25 percent and those aged 40 to 54 at 23 percent, according to the ADP Research's People at Work Report 2026.