There is productivity in the last 6 years or more, but you
cannot find it in the economy scale, it had been curbed by
low cost foreign labour intake. With it, which company would want
to waste time, effort and cost on intiating productivity when you
can just lower your cost by getting cheap labour that is nearly 3
to 4 times cheaper than local. Ironically, the opening
of gate for the influx of cheap labour during the last
few years had make companies here handicapped to innovative, create
and be productive.
As a director, why should i train my staff, why should i
redesign my work, why should i spend time and money to streamline
my processes??? when all these can be settle by just employing
cheap labour pluck from the cheap labour market. And the underlying
of productivity is that if you input less, and get more output that
is productivity, so bosses pay less and get still get more
output....it is productivity, but not recorded.
The Govt has up to now then realize the impact because, firstly,
citizens are migrating out, 2ndly, election is coming and thirdly,
they realized that they cannot depend on cheap foreign labour
forever. So, they reverse the gear and put us back to the 90s
again. Reduce the FW and ask Singaporean to be productive.
There is a social, political and economic impact on this
issue, on one hand, reducing foreigners here will delight the local
to vote for them, on the other hand, they wanted to reduce the
dependent on foreign workers.
If today, one million Foreign workers are ask to go back by
their own countries, what will happen to singapore...it economy
will come to a standstill...and that is the worry too.
The US admitted plenty of immigrants each years so the
rationale of cheap labour does not hold.
There is productivity in the last 6 years or more,
but you cannot find it in the economy scale, it had been
curbed by low cost foreign labour intake. With it, which company
would want to waste time, effort and cost on intiating productivity
when you can just lower your cost by getting cheap labour that is
nearly 3 to 4 times cheaper than local.
That is why i said your knowledge of productivities are so
limited.....you are thinking in terms of Cheaper, Faster and
Better....
A recent observation..........
Trash collector...
In Singapore 1980 the minimum make up of a trash truck is 3
person. Namely 1 driver, 2 collectors. Today 2010 it is still 3
person of course they are from china.
In California single houses there is only 1 person Who is the
Driver that collect Trash. Reason they managed to attach a
fork by the side of the trash Truck and it gets to fork the
bin and flipped the trash bin over and pour the
Trash into the Truck....
The facts that they only used 1 person it allow the company to
capture broader region. Expand more trucks. The driver also
command a much higher wages.
See the different.....cheaper Faster better
continue....singapore way vs US private enterprise.
