WHY IT MATTERS SEASON 4

FOR CHANNEL NEWS ASIA
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COVID-19 is pushing the world into the largest-ever workplace experiment - with remote work. Is this the dawn of a new era in the world of work?

8 in 10 Singaporean workers are currently working from home - and would like to continue doing so. Meanwhile, companies around the world are also toying with the idea of making a permanent shift into remote work. What will we lose from our face-to-face collaborations, when this seismic shift becomes permanent? Can technology make virtual collaborations as engaging and creative as real world interactions? How will this change to remote work transform office spaces or even whole cities? And when it no longer matters where employees are working from, how will that change the global job market? Joshua Lim finds out.

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2 in 5 Singaporeans report shopping online more during the pandemic and some experts think this habit is likely to stay. While digital shopping might feel like the way of the future, its sorting and delivery remains a largely manual process, and may even come with a hidden carbon footprint. Joshua Lim hunts down the technologies that promise to make deliveries less manual and more eco-friendly.