SINGAPORE – The Government Technology Agency’s restructuring is not part of a broad-based exercise across the public service, said the Public Service Division on July 17.

The restructuring – where GovTech retrenched 93 employees – reflects its own operating needs as it adjusts to the broader changes in the technology sector, PSD said in a statement in response to media queries.

This includes rapid advances in technology and changing ways of developing and delivering digital products, PSD said.

GovTech announced its restructuring on July 15. It said then that it expects a total of 7 per cent to 9 per cent of roles in its workforce of about 3,900 to be affected by restructuring over the next two years.

PSD said that in the public service, more significant restructuring is undertaken only where necessary.

This would be in response to fundamental changes in an agency’s operating environment, mission or operating model, added PSD, which oversees the public service.

Public service agencies continually review their organisations, functions, operating models, and workforce requirements to meet changing needs and priorities, it added.

Most workforce changes are made progressively, through reskilling, job redesign, redeployment and natural attrition, it said.

A small number of officers affected by GovTech’s restructuring have been offered a civil service resignation scheme, PSD said. PSD did not say how many officers were offered the scheme, and if the 93 retrenched staff were among them.

The scheme, known as the Special Resignation Scheme (SRS), provides financial support to public officers whose roles are no longer needed, and who cannot be redeployed to another suitable role within the...