"Workers Today Are Too Obsessed With Pay And Material Things"

Lim has worked her way up through persistent hard work to be where she is today.

Her career started with the Ministry of Defence, where she worked as a defence budget analyst, "Then I was roped in to be a productivity activist," she told Bharati Jagdish on her show "On The Record" for Channel NewsAsia.

In her next job at ST Electronics, Lim worked as a corporate planning and developing manager. However, at ST Electronics, her work was not enough to hold her back in the office after 5.30pm. This was in 1996.

"In those days, we didn’t really think about work-life balance. It’s important. But at that point of my career, my thinking was that I must contribute to the organisation," Lim said.

In the interview, she spoke about a lot of things related to technology, about the power of technology to increase productivity, and "how to truly achieve productivity by inculcating the 'productivity DNA' in people".

"Technology is supposed to improve lives, but you’ve got to know what is the objective of technology. You don't use technology for the sake of technology. I think for me, it is not a choice of which stance to take. Frankly, we do not have a choice. It is like time, even if you do nothing, time will pass. So whichever stance I take, technology will come. Whether it will incapacitate us, it will depend on how we use it, how responsible we are to our society and how disciplined we are to our own mental and physical development.

This is what Lim, who is the managing director of Tunity Technologies, told Bharati:

"Workers today are too obsessed with pay, material things. They forget that they should do more for their employers in order to get those things."

Adding further, the successful technopreneur said that the employees today have "forgotten about internalising this DNA within themselves."