新加坡：新加坡政府科技局（GovTech）周四（10月22日）表示，已实施计划中裁员的第二阶段，继续推进在两年内裁减约300名员工的工作。
SINGAPORE: The Government Technology Agency of Singapore (GovTech) said on Thursday (Oct 22) it has carried out the second phase of its planned layoffs, as it continued efforts to let go of about 300 workers over two years.
政府科技局回应《亚洲新闻台》（CNA）询问时表示，共有38名员工将离职，受影响的岗位主要是围绕传统项目交付设立的职位。
A total of 38 staff members will leave GovTech, and the roles affected are primarily those structured around traditional project delivery, said GovTech in response to CNA queries.
政府科技局说：“与第一阶段一样，我们优先考虑在可能的情况下留任、再培训和调配人员。”
"As with the first phase, we have prioritised retaining, retraining and redeploying officers wherever possible," it said.
该局补充说，经过人力检视，106名人员将留任原职，另有106人符合转岗和学徒制途径的资格，可转型至新岗位。
Following the workforce review, 106 officers will remain in their current roles, while another 106 are eligible for conversion and apprenticeship pathways to transition into new roles, it added.
政府科技局说：“我们认识到这些变动对受影响同事而言很艰难。”该局表示，将继续与公共服务局、技能与劳动力发展局以及法定机构职工总会合作，为受影响员工提供支持。支持措施包括职业辅导、职位匹配和就业安置协助。所有受影响员工均在周四结束前获通知。
"We recognise that these changes are difficult for affected colleagues." It said that it will continue to work with the Public Service Division, Skills and Workforce Development Agency and the Amalgamated Union of Statutory Board Employees to provide support to the affected staff. This includes career coaching, job matching and placement assistance. All affected staff members were informed by the end of Thursday.
这是三轮裁员中的第二轮，政府科技局寻求在向新运营模式转型期间裁减7%至9%的员工。此次裁员涉及部署至23个政府机构的员工。
This was the second of three rounds of retrenchment, as GovTech seeks to let go of 7 to 9 per cent of its workforce amid a transition to a new operating model. The exercise affects staff deployed to 23 government agencies.
《亚洲新闻台》了解到，最后一轮裁员将于2027年年中进行，员工已于上月在全员大会上获知此事。在今年7月进行的第一阶段，有93名人员被裁员。
CNA understands that the final round will be done in mid-2027, and that staff were told about this in a company-wide townhall last month. In the first phase which took place in July this year, 93 officers were retrenched.
上述数字意味着，最后一轮可能有近170名员工被裁减——这是三个阶段中人数最多的一轮。
The figures mean that nearly 170 staff members could be let go in that final round – the highest number of all three phases.
隶属数字发展及新闻部的这个法定机构约有3900名正式和合约员工，支援超过50个政府机构的科技需求。
The statutory board under the Ministry of Digital Development and Information had about 3,900 permanent and contract staff, supporting the technology needs of more than 50 government agencies.
新加坡政府科技局（GovTech）的裁员行动引发关注，因为新加坡公共部门裁员极为罕见。
News of GovTech’s retrenchment exercise drew attention as public sector layoffs in Singapore are rare.
根据时任副总理兼公务员部长张志贤在2011年11月的书面国会答复，在政府科技局之前，公务员体系最后一次公开报道的裁员可追溯至2006年至2010年，当时有20名官员在“特别辞职计划”下离职。
Before GovTech, the last publicly reported retrenchments in the civil service dated back to 2006 to 2010, when 20 officers left under the Special Resignation Scheme, according to a written parliamentary reply in November 2011 by then-Deputy Prime Minister and Minister-in-charge of the Civil Service Teo Chee Hean.
早在7月，政府科技局主席庄启峰在致员工的信中表示，此举“并非由人工智能驱动的缩减规模行动”，且这一转型在当前人工智能浪潮到来前数年就已开始。
Back in July, GovTech chairman Chng Kai Fong said in a note to staff that the move was “not an AI-driven downsizing exercise” and that the shift began years before the current AI wave.
8月，代理人力部长刘燕玲在国会表示，该局已预判到重塑员工队伍的必要性，并在试点项目和学徒制上投入巨资，以重新培训或重新部署员工。然而，政府科技局主管部长指出，其步伐和规模存在局限。
In August, Acting Manpower Minister Jasmin Lau said in parliament that the agency had anticipated the need to reshape its workforce and invested heavily in pilots and apprenticeships to retrain or redeploy staff. However, there were limits to its pace and scale, said the Minister-in-charge of GovTech.