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Which is more serious, an alert or a warning? | I’ve been quite confused. Our government recently introduced these alerting mechanisms to warn us about potential exposures to COVID-19 cases. They used two terms, ...
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The government owns the data. | No surprise here. TraceTogether can be used for purposes other than COVID-19 contract tracing needs. It was revealed in parliament yesterday that the police can, indeed, obtain ...
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2020 has forced us to change. | Seeing M1’s advertisements a few days ago about their “Remote Working Solutions”, I think many people will have the same first thoughts coming to them. With four major ...
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Doing alright now doesn't mean we'll always do okay. | After 15 days without any locally case of COVID-19 transmission, the good streak had to end. On 26 Nov, a Singaporean man tested positive for COVID-19. Then, ...
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Just when we got comfy with HBL, HBL ends. | In some years, the mid-year school holidays start a little bit early, like in the last week of May. But here we are in the first week of May, and today’s the last day ...
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How do you prep to WFH? | Singapore’s circuit breaker measure to combat the spread of COVID-19 kicks in tomorrow. Today is the last normal working day for many workplaces. For those who can telecommute, how are ...
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Singapore's latest weapon against COVID-19. | Singapore’s latest weapon to fight the COVID-19 virus is a smartphone app: TraceTogether. The main objective of this app is to facilitate contact tracing, enabling ...
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Changes at work needed to cope with COVID-19. | The Singapore government last week advised workplace distancing measures. This means that businesses need to make adjustments to how their employees work, as well as how ...
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People need to modernise themselves. | Telecommuting isn’t a new concept. For many people, though, the first time they really got to work from home was during the SARS period seventeen years ago. The present ...
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What will COVID-19 do for us? | 2020 hasn’t been great so far, mostly because of COVID-19 that is topmost on everyone’s mind all over the world, and most particularly those in Asia. Any initial hopes that ...
