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Many years ago, before the pandemic, I had an employee who was allowed to work from home on Saturday. There was an urgent work to be completed on a Saturday morning. I sent an email to him. He did not respond. I telephoned him. He did not answer the call. A few hours later, he returned the call. He had some excuses why he was... 

It’s Gay Pride month around the world and in Singapore, it’s the month that Pink Dot SG falls in. This is the time when the LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Community gets to celebrate being just that. Pride is one of those events that stirs passions. As much as the LGBTQ community feels the need to celebrate... 

One of the main things that I did in my degree course in anthropology was to debate the issue of identity. We tried to figure out what made a person a part of a particular group and we explored things like ethnicity, culture and language. This was a discussion that had become complicated. In the days when migration was less...