Redditer: Foreign workers take four in five Singapore jobs in 2025

[Insouciant]

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Foreign workers take four in five Singapore jobs in 2025​

Singapore added 55,500 jobs in 2025, but roughly four in every five went to non-resident workers. Resident employment grew by 11,600 while non-resident employment grew by 43,900.

Curious what everyone thinks — is this a structural reliance on foreign labour, or a skills mismatch issue? I read and heard so many Singaporeans actively looking for jobs for months, and even years..

https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/0...as-internal-indicators-signal-a-turning-cycle

 

[birdie69]

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Foreign workers take four in five Singapore jobs in 2025​

Singapore added 55,500 jobs in 2025, but roughly four in every five went to non-resident workers. Resident employment grew by 11,600 while non-resident employment grew by 43,900.

Curious what everyone thinks — is this a structural reliance on foreign labour, or a skills mismatch issue? I read and heard so many Singaporeans actively looking for jobs for months, and even years..

https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/0...as-internal-indicators-signal-a-turning-cycle

What if 90% of 11,600 jobs go to non PAP supporters?

 

[True Believer]

The PAP has invited 650,000 CECAs into S'pore. Why is anyone surprised that there are an increasing number of retrenchments for S'porean citizens, 95% of jobs created in 2023 and 89% in 2022 went to foreigners and 93% of respondents in the Edelman survey are afraid of job loss in SG?

 

[Revenger]

LOL !

FUCK YOU , USELESS SINKIES !

 

[True Believer]

LOL ! FUCK YOU , USELESS SINKIES !

A govt that allows 4 of every 5 jobs created to go to non-S'poreans needs to be voted out. Yet 65% voted for such a treacherous govt.

 

[eatshitndie]

yesterday i sextimated 6.9 out of 10 workers were foreigners and 6.9 out of 10 diners at food courts and hawker centers were sinkies. sinkies are living the good life makaning away while foreigners toil and sweat to clean up sinkies’ shit.

 

[jsctan]

LOL !

FUCK YOU , USELESS SINKIES !

Sinkies are only able to vote wisely every 5 years. The HR, hiring managers... are already infiltrated with aliens. How to get in even though sinkies are more than qualifired to work? Even if in the work area, you are outnumbered, how to rise up? It is the fault of the open door policy.

 

[batman1]

Even if foreigner workers take 5 in 5 Sg jobs,nobody cares .U think mom cares? Ntuc cares ? Pap govt cares ? Nobody cares.Sinkees will just accept their fate and lie flat. 555

 

[True Believer]

yesterday i sextimated 6.9 out of 10 workers were foreigners and 6.9 out of 10 diners at food courts and hawker centers were sinkies. sinkies are living the good life makaning away while foreigners toil and sweat to clean up sinkies’ shit.

What you just mentioned is that 6.9 out of 10 foreigners are employed, while 6.9 out of 10 locals were eating at hawker centres instead of being in the office, because they are unemployed.

 

[True Believer]

Sinkies are only able to vote wisely every 5 years. The HR, hiring managers... are already infiltrated with aliens. How to get in even though sinkies are more than qualifired to work? Even if in the work area, you are outnumbered, how to rise up? It is the fault of the open door policy.

The PAP has an open leg policy.

 

[True Believer]

Even if foreigner workers take 5 in 5 Sg jobs,nobody cares .U think mom cares? Ntuc cares ? Pap govt cares ? Nobody cares.Sinkees will just accept their fate and lie flat. 555

CECAs are PAP's pets. Get over it.

 

[eatshitndie]

What you just mentioned is that 6.9 out of 10 foreigners are employed, while 6.9 out of 10 locals were eating at hawker centres instead of being in the office, because they are unemployed.

most likely 6.9 out of 10 makaners are retired sinkies with a positive cpf balance and average monthly cpf annuity payment of $699 affording them basic luxuries such as $1.69 kopi and $2.69 kaya toast plus 2 koui neng at a kopitiam. the more blessed sinkies are luxuriating in ac at ya kun or toast box with $6.9 kopi sets. no need to work. just collect cdc vouchers and cpf payouts.

 

[True Believer]

most likely 6.9 out of 10 makaners are retired sinkies with a positive cpf balance and average monthly cpf annuity payment of $699 affording them basic luxuries such as $1.69 kopi and $2.69 kaya toast plus 2 koui neng at a kopitiam. the more blessed sinkies are luxuriating in ac at ya kun or toast box with $6.9 kopi sets. no need to work. just collect cdc vouchers and cpf payouts.

I see retirees at my condo still driving luxury cars, travelling overseas, enjoying dining, playing golf 10-20 years after retirement.

 

[True Believer]

The PAP's open leg policy.

 

[eatshitndie]

I see retirees at my condo still driving luxury cars, travelling overseas, enjoying dining, playing golf 10-20 years after retirement.

i am meeting sinkie spgs and their american hubbies for makan almost every week. we go all over the world, on cruises and private tours. 1 couple just flew in. we’re not so snobbish. will makan with 6.9 out of 10 sinkies served by 6.9 out of 10 foreigners, jiuhukia and jiuhubu included.

 

[jsctan]

Even if foreigner workers take 5 in 5 Sg jobs,nobody cares .U think mom cares? Ntuc cares ? Pap govt cares ? Nobody cares.Sinkees will just accept their fate and lie flat. 555

Sad but true. The policy is to import convincing themselves sinkies' fault for not producing enough workers for their establishment.

 

[WangChuk]

foreign workers allow papayas and silver serpents to collect lots of different taxes and payments .... sinkies getting that job will mean lesser money into their accounts ...

 

[True Believer]

foreign workers allow papayas and silver serpents to collect lots of different taxes and payments .... sinkies getting that job will mean lesser money into their accounts ...

Foreigners account for about 1/5 of all income taxpayers, but contribute more than 1/4 of S'pore's total personal income taxes.

 

[True Believer]

Even if foreigner workers take 5 in 5 Sg jobs,nobody cares .U think mom cares? Ntuc cares ? Pap govt cares ? Nobody cares.Sinkees will just accept their fate and lie flat.

Foreigners have accounted for around 16% or $174 million per year of Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty revenue on average over recent years. Non-S'poreans are PAP's pets owing to our govt's greed.

 

[True Believer]

The SG govt focuses solely on the fiscal benefits of having so many foreigners here, but the Opposition and most locals have raised concerns about the impact on PMET jobs, salary competition and the overall cost of living. The PAP is closing both eyes to this "economic genocide" because of greed.