The operating environment of the Public Service is undergoing fundamental and rapid change. The issues we face are complex and multi‑faceted, which impact the way the Public Service operates and organises itself. To prepare the Public Service for these changes, we have begun the journey toward Public Sector Transformation (PST). There are currently hundreds of hotlines across the Whole of Government (WOG). The Contact Centre team in ServiceSG aims to work with agencies who own these hotlines to streamline and integrate these contact centres, especially those that provide related services. The goal is to establish a central ServiceSG contact centre that can address the queries of citizens across related citizen services, serving as an outsourced shared service for selected agencies. The team will also support surges in contact centre call loads for key agencies during peak periods, and act as the central call centre in a national pandemic or crisis.
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