Get a grant to implement Work-Life Strategies, which will help your employees manage their work responsibilities alongside personal and family needs.For who?
- All organisations with at least 5 paid employees (including private sector, public sector and non-profit organisations).
For what?
- The WoW! Fund helps employers to defray costs incurred in implementing Work-Life Strategies. Specifically, you can use the funds for:
- Training - To subsidise the cost of training human resource managers and line supervisors to implement work-life strategies. Courses must be approved by MOM.
- Infrastructure - To subsidise one-time infrastructure development costs needed for flexible work arrangements or employee support schemes. E.g. Telecommuting systems, lactation rooms for nursing mothers, etc.
- Consultancy - To subsidise the cost of hiring a certified consultant to explore, develop and implement work-life strategies. List of Certified Work-Life Consultants.
- Human Resource - To subsidise the salary of staff tasked with implementing your business’ work-life strategies. By the end of the implementation period, staff must have completed a MOM-approved course.
- WOW! can also be used to fund and support the following Employee Support Schemes (ESS):
- Personal Work-Life Effectiveness (PWLE) Workplace Programmes
- flexible benefits programmes
- lactation, family or daycare rooms
- time-saving services (e.g. concierge, internal postal or banking services)
- employee counselling services (e.g. for stress or personal issues)
- family referral services
- innovative childcare or eldercare arrangements
How much?
- The WOW! Fund co-funds up to 70% of your business’ work-life project, capped at S$10,000 per company.