Work
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What your employer in Singapore actually has to do about mental health
The Tripartite Advisory is guidance, not law. The Workplace Fairness Act will be law, from the end of 2027. Here is what is binding now, what is coming, and what…
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Is an employee assistance programme actually confidential?
The question that stops most people using the counselling their employer already paid for. What the employer receives, what they do not, and the two exceptions.
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Burnout is not a diagnosis, and that changes what you should do
The World Health Organization classifies burnout as an occupational phenomenon, explicitly not a medical condition. The precise wording has practical consequences for medical leave, insurance, and what actually fixes it.
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Burnout or depression: how the two are told apart
They overlap, they can occur together, and burnout can precede a depressive episode. Three questions clinicians use to separate them, and why getting it right changes the treatment.
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Burnout
What burnout is, what the World Health Organization actually classifies it as, how it is distinguished from depression, and why the distinction changes what you should do about it.
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Stress at work
What Singapore employers are and are not obliged to do, what you can formally ask for, how an employee assistance programme actually works, and what to do when the job…