Daily Briefing: Changi Airport named the best airport; 24 bids received for Toh Tuck Road site

And here are three things firms can do to help their employees be more engaged.

From Get.com via Yahoo!: Singapore's pride and joy, Changi Airport has once again been named the world's best airport for the fifth consecutive year by Skytrax. Emerging as a winner for the fifth time in a row is certainly no mean feat since the views of 13.82 million travellers across more than 100 nationalities were taken into consideration. Just to put things into perspective, Changi Airport came up tops amongst 550 participating airports.

From PropertyGuru: A 1.87ha residential site at Toh Tuck Road in Upper Bukit Timah attracted overwhelming interest from property developers, with a total of 24 bids submitted after the tender exercise closed on 11 April, said the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Launched for sale on 28 February, the 99-year leasehold site has a maximum permissible gross floor area of 282,122 sq ft. The future development is expected to yield 325 units.

From MoneySmart via Yahoo!: A recent poll found Singaporean employees to be Asia’s least engaged. In fact, Singapore’s employee engagement score fell by 4% in 2016, which suggests that people are becoming even less satisfied at work. For employers, this is a big headache. The cream of the crop tend to quickly get poached by big MNCs, leaving SMEs to fight for the 5 decent employees remaining. But employers shouldn’t be too quick to invoke the “strawberry generation” rebuke or dismiss their employees as useless wastrels.

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