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SINGAPORE – Media OutReach<\/a> – 2 June 2021\u00a0–<\/strong>\u00a0Aon plc<\/a> (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional
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Aon conducted its pulse survey from April
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“The ongoing disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated
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Companies
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In Singapore, 75% of surveyed organisations
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However, companies do not expect everyone to
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Additionally, flexible or hybrid working
Supporting vaccine adoption through
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As workers head back onsite, companies are taking a
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Meanwhile, 34% of organisations in Singapore are offering
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Focused on the future, almost three in four
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The three most prevalent issues shaping
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Looking more closely at inclusion and
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Efforts to rethink location-based
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With remote work on the
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However, making adjustments of this
75% of surveyed organisations
have made decisions on return-to-office timelines but only 25% of the companies
have a return date. 33% of companies expect
returning workers to spend only two to three days per week in the office Key
issues shaping future-of-work definitions are addressing talent availability
concerns, rethinking company cultures and digitalisation SINGAPORE – …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nservices firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions,
\nhas released the results of a new global human
\nresources (HR) pulse survey focused on the steps companies are taking to bring
\nthe future of work to life.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n20-28, 2021, with a total of 1,451 human resources leaders and professionals
\nresponding globally.\u00a0Complete\u00a0study results, across multiple geographies
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\nthe need for an agile and resilient workforce,” said Peter Bentley, Global Chief Commercial Officer &
\nFuture of Work Leader for Human
\nCapital solutions at Aon. “The focus on flexible working, while not new, has
\nresulted in an unpacking of additional ‘future of work’ initiatives as highlighted
\nby our survey findings. We see this trend continuing and driving positive
\nmomentum as companies build a more flexible, healthy workforce and invest in
\ndeveloping existing employee potential to drive innovation and performance.”<\/p>\n
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\nplan for return to the office, but not everyone and not every day<\/b><\/p>\n
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\nhave made decisions on return-to-office timeline but only 25% of the companies
\nhave a return date.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nreturn to the office. Forty-nine percent of surveyed organisations expect fewer
\nthan 75% of office workers to return onsite once the COVID-19 pandemic is over.
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\noptions are on the rise, with 33% of companies expecting returning workers to
\nspend only two to three days per week in the office, and another 17% of
\ncompanies opting to give employees a choice in terms of how much time they
\nspend in the office.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nproactive and supportive approach to vaccine adoption; however, they are largely
\nstopping short of mandates. Only 5% of surveyed organisations in Singapore currently
\nplan to make COVID-19 vaccines mandatory for employees where allowed by law,
\nwith another 9% of organisations actively considering this approach.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nincentives to employees who receive COVID-19 vaccines, most often in the form
\nof paid time-off to receive and recover from injections, and 46% of companies
\nare actively educating employees on the benefits of getting vaccinated.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nand inclusion and diversity efforts are tightly linked<\/b><\/p>\n
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\nsurveyed companies (70%) in Singapore have one or more teams or taskforces
\ndefining, managing and implementing the future of work. In addition, 80% of
\norganisations say they now have a clear and consistent <\/span>definition for what the future of work
\nmeans for their business or expect to have a definition in the next six months.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\nfuture-of-work definitions in Singapore are addressing talent availability
\nconcerns, rethinking company cultures and digitalisation, cited by 93%, 86% and
\n80% of companies, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\ndiversity efforts, 44% of surveyed companies in Singapore state HR teams are
\nmost responsible for leading programmes in this area. Additionally, 86% of
\nfirms<\/span> have created or are planning to create inclusion and diversity metrics
\nor goals to track progress, with diversity encompassing diversity of thought as
\nwell as employee demographics.<\/span><\/p>\n
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\ncompensation continue<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n
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\nrise, 69% of surveyed organisations in Singapore have adjusted, or are
\nconsidering adjusting, geographic pay differentials as a result of the pandemic.
\n<\/span>Among companies actively adjusting
\npay based on shifting employee locations, 87% are re-examining pay rates using fresh
\nmarket data and 39% are adding more granularity to the geographic zones they
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\nnature isn’t without challenges. Top concerns for Singapore organisations include
\nthe difficulty of adopting and maintaining market-aligned pay rates across
\nnumerous locations (72%) and employment-related concerns and work policies (67%).
\nIn both cases, surveyed companied cited these issues as moderately, very or
\nextremely challenging. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n
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