A recent Randstad survey in Singapore, shows that a lack of recognition or appreciation is among the top three factors discouraging employees across Gen Z, millennials and Gen X. What’s striking is that this dissatisfaction persists even in workplaces that already offer competitive pay and benefits, pointing to a problem that goes beyond compensation. As work becomes more fluid, much of what organisations now depend on is harder to track and easy to overlook.

Trevor Yu, Associate Professor at the Nanyang Business School, Co-director of the NTU Centre for Research and Development in Learning joins the Breakfast Show to unpack why recognition is breaking down in today’s workplaces, why it matters more now than before, and what this says about how organisations value work in an era of ambiguity and constant change.