“It'll be interesting to see whether this apparent disconnect between employers and jobseekers hampers the ability of some employers to attract suitable candidates going forward,” said Callam Pickering, APAC Senior Economist at Indeed
SINGAPORE: Jobseekers in Singapore are still interested in working from home. Employers, however, are offering fewer positions that involve remote work.
Data from Indeed, a US-based global employment website for job listings, shows that 6.6 per cent of employment postings contain “work from home” or “remote work” in their descriptions in May of this year, a figure far lower than in late 2021. But one out of every 28 job searches still contains references to remote work, keywords that are still among the most popular search terms in Singapore.
“Jobseekers continue to value the flexibility offered by remote work. It’ll be interesting to see whether this apparent disconnect between employers and jobseekers hampers the ability of some employers to attract suitable candidates going forward,” Callam Pickering, the APAC Senior Economist at Indeed, is quoted as saying inJob postings on Indeed for Singapore showed a 1.
He added that the country’s unemployment rate, currently at 1.8 per cent, is likely to increase for the rest of the year. /TISG
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