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Success Stories
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 About SPRING Singapore
SPRING Singapore is the enterprise development agency for growing innovative companies and fostering a competitive small and medium enterprise (SME) sector. SPRING works with partners to help enterprises in financing, capabilities and management development, technology and innovation, and gaining access to markets. SPRING is also the national standards and accreditation body of Singapore. As a result of several work-life initiatives that were implemented over the years, SPRING saw a 12.8 percent drop in medical costs among its 350 employees since 2005 and a 5 percent drop in medical leave taken. In addition, senior management also held regular dialogue sessions with staff and their feedback were promptly addressed and looked into.
SPRING Singapore was presented with the Work-Life Achiever Award 2008.
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 Sports and Fitness. SPRING organises an annual inter-group sports competition (IGSC) with activities like running, bowling, badminton and tennis, and even indoor games like Scrabble and darts. More than half of the officers participate in this annual event. They are granted early release from work to train for the competition. Some of these participants also represented SPRING in friendly competitions with its Malaysian counterpart. When the competition was held in Malaysia, some family members also went along as supporters for a quality time of family bonding. In 2006, a total of 100 staff and family travelled to Malaysia for the friendly meet. Other Board-wide events include Active Days and Family Days where families are welcome to participate. For example, 430 officers and their families turned up for the Active cum Family Day in 2006. Interesting activities like treasure hunts and telematches were also organised.
IT Support. Previously, only senior officers were provided with laptops. The benefit has since been extended to junior officers who require the same facility for their work. This has increased officers’ work mobility and response time to urgent work issues, and also helped them to maintain work-life balance. |
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| Flexible Work Arrangements – Flexi Hours, Part Time and Telecommuting |
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SPRING provides employees with flexible work arrangements like flexi-hours where employees can apply via the HR system to start work at 7.30am, 8.00am, 8.30am or 9.00 am. Depending on their work-life needs, they can also apply to telecommute or work part time for a period of time agreed between themselves and their departments’ supervisors, subject to Management’s approval. These flexible work arrangements are possible as there is open communication and mutual trust between employees and their department supervisors. |
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Employee Quote
“I've been on flexi hours for at least a year now and it’s been great in helping me to balance my roles at home and at work. By putting in the same number of hours at the office and yet having the flexibility to leave earlier, I get to spend more waking time with my school-going kids without compromising on my work. In fact, I've been seeing more of my kids now than ever before because I see them off to school before popping into the office in the early mornings. I am glad that SPRING has such a flexible scheme for working mothers like me.”
- Jennifer Yap, Deputy Director, Corporate Communications
To find out more about SPRING Singapore, please visit: http://www.spring.gov.sg
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