- Employees empowered with new digital skills as COVID-19
accelerates greater collaboration between humans and
technology
- Advances in mobile technologies and applications is driving a
collaboration boom as businesses adopt video conferencing and
wearables as AI platforms
- COVID-19 fueling automation of supply chains across different
industries
SINGAPORE, Aug. 12, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- As the economy
re-starts in Singapore, workers
are returning to a changing workplace as COVID-19 accelerates
greater collaboration between humans and technology, empowering
employees with new digital skills, according to GlobalData, a
leading data and analytics company.
Various technologies are transforming 'The future of work' in
Singapore including video
conferencing and other collaboration tools, communication between
smart objects, supply chain automation and digital twinning to
provide virtual presentations.
Collaboration becomes an AI platform
The rapid advances in mobile technologies and applications has
driven a collaboration boom since the pandemic started as
businesses adopt video conferencing as AI platforms. OCBC Bank
Singapore introduced a mobile app to launch 'HealthPass' which
enables patients to book video consultation appointments with over
100 general practitioners. The use of wearables is also
accelerating as mobile and wireless technologies support positive
health outcomes through m-health. One example is 'smart rings'
which provide advance warning of infections with a 90%
accuracy.
Access agnostic connectivity
The seamless communication between smart objects over the
internet is also proving to be transformative in the changing work
landscape. Singapore-based telecom
provider M1 has been working with regulator IMDA and airline
manufacturer Airbus to trial unmanned aerial vehicles using 5G
technology for the Singapore Port and Maritime Authority to use as
part of its incident management response and the running of its
general operations.
Automation
One of the biggest changes COVID-19 has brought is the
automation of the supply chain with several industries such as
manufacturing, healthcare and aerospace now embracing 3D printing.
Researchers at the National University of
Singapore (NUS) have found a method of producing
nasopharyngeal COVID-19 testing swabs using 3D-printing and
injection molding providing local production capability which will
ease global shortages.
Data visualization, interpretation
Advanced digital technologies are also providing analytics tools
and insights for line-of-business users. Several of Singapore's capital-intensive industries
including construction which has been one of the hardest hit, are
investing in digital twinning to create virtual representations of
processes and physical objects.
Dustin Kehoe, Head of Technology
Research for Asia-Pacific at
GlobalData, says: "One of the biggest challenges facing Singaporean
businesses in the short-term is in HR. Employees will need a lot of
reassurance and support to embrace the changing future of work and
acquire the skills they will need to adjust to new ways of working,
as work flows move from physical locations and rigid hierarchies
towards peer-to-peer collaboration in virtual teams."
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