The Government Technology Agency or GovTech, has retrenched 93 staff and expects a total of seven to nine per cent of roles in its workforce to be affected by restructuring in the next two years.
GovTech chair Chng Kai Fong said, “This is not an AI-driven downsizing exercise. This shift began years before the current AI wave.”
The restructuring is meant to take GovTech from managing projects delivered by vendors to running products itself, said Mr Chng.
The union, which represents GovTech’s workers, the Amalgamated Union of Statutory Board Employees (AUSBE), said, “While we have explored redeployment and retraining pathways, a small number of officers will transition out of GovTech.”
