Introducing the Young Leaders on the Gen.T List: Ho Di-Yan

The civil engineer turned entrepreneur shares his motivations for starting a business that caters to the unmet needs of blue-collar workers

- Chong Jinn Xiung

Switching careers from civil engineering to tech entrepreneur was a drastic change for Ho Di-Yan. After graduating, he worked in the construction industry in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand where he managed and tracked the hours blue-collar workers clocked in at the site.

However, he found that the companies he worked for used traditional methods like punch cards to track attendance, potentially losing money by overpaying workers for overtime hours they did not work. The manual recording process was a common problem shared by companies across the region, as there were no human resource solutions designed to manage blue-collar workers.