Are Businesses in SG Short of Staff?

[bakkuttay]

Less MPs needed

 

[t0nychat]

While all those private firms always claimed that they are short of staffs, many of those GLCs and civil service sectors are over staffing all the time.

One good example is our Sillypore gahbrament.
Do we really need so many MPs in a GRC to run a constitution?
Do we need to have 5 PMs (old fart, woody, what you think teo, shiny head ah neh and pinky) to manage Sillypore?
Do we really need to pay them millions each year to "cho bo lan"?

If we want private firms to down size and operate in a cost effective environment, the Sillypore gahbrament must also follow by cutting back the number of MPs and also their pay. Sillypore gahbrament always do one thing and say another, double standard practicing.

So what are you waiting for? 2016?

 

[Cerebral]

If businesses are efficient and very productive and are willing to pay high salaries, why would they want to locate in Singapore instead of in Switzerland, London, Zurich or San Francisco?

Based on your argument, there would be no businesses in AU and all developed countries

 

[johnny333]

So what are you going to do now? Wait till 2016? You ball-less sinkie.

The PAP has done a good job alienating Sporeans from Spore
Not much left for me here except for my parents. When they are gone I'll probably be gone also.

What is important to me is that I have enough $ & it's held outside Spore. So whatever happens in 2016 will not really affect me.

 

[Leongsam]

Based on your argument, there would be no businesses in AU and all developed countries

Singapore is not Australia or NZ.

While OZ has minerals, dairy, fruit, meat, tourism, marine industries etc which are collectively worth billions of dollars annually and support industries have to be located at source, Singapore is nothing but a 695 sq km lump of clay with no natural resources and no hinterland.

All Singapore has is the collective will of its inhabitants. People and people alone add value to the Singapore economy. It has nothing that it can dig out of the ground or cultivate in a field. It can't survive if it operates as a country. It has to operate like an efficient company or it will go broke.

Are you really that clueless regarding how vulnerable the country is or are you just pretending to be ignorant for the sake of discussion?

Let me tell you a bit about NZ... it has a minimum wage and expensive labour. As a result, it has lost almost ALL it's manufacturing capabilities. Fischer and Paykel used to employ tens of thousands. It now does all its manufacturing in China and Mexico. Most home grown NZ manufacturing companies have long since closed shop.

The finance industry here is a joke. The turnover of the share market and the forex market is 1/10th of Singapore's or less. There are hardly any multinational financial institutions here. What's the point of setting up in a backwater where taxes are high and government regulations stifle the quick and easy transfer of capital?

However, NZ is still a reasonably rich country because it has dairy, forestry, meat and some mining and a huge tourism market. Without that, the country would now be 3rd world.