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The most significant difference I observe while working in Singapore is that people are treated like adults, not like kids. There are some delightful tools you can feel like so here such as medical leave, remote work, and so on.
Let's take a look at medical leaves first. Here is a question, "have you ever used medical leaves in Korea?". This one might be more precise questions to Koreans, "do you know what medical leaves are?". Here in Singapore, people tell others that they will take a rest at home just because they are not feeling well. No proofs are needed. Back in Korea, even when I used my paid leaves, I had to describe where to go and why these leaves were. It is absurd, huh?
How about remote work? My colleagues work remotely once or twice a week on average. There is no reason, either. They say "I will be working from home." That's it. No excuses required. People leave comments about what they are going to do for the day and communicate on Slack. Nobody does care what people, who are remotely working, are doing or where they are.
Lastly, no one assigns any task to others. What? There are managers, but they are supporting people, not ruling. They are there to help people to do their job. Each team has sprint plannings regularly and decide what to do and deadlines by ourselves. Developers decide what developers have to do. No director or manager can order.
Then, people are working autonomously and proactively. No one tells you to do some tasks. Because you manage what to do, it's entirely your work and job. This is why I can say I am happy here, event at work.
19 Oct 2018