As a Business broker and consultant to many SMEs in Singapore,
the general views I had gathered from many of the business owners
to date are that having so many foreigners in Singapore actually
does not benefit them at all as they eventually discovered these
foreign emplyees are not as competent as local Singaporeans. I am
not sure if this has anything to do with the different work
culture. These SME owners told me they actually prefered to hire
local Singaporeans but are unable to do so because the locals tend
to be very picky over pay and having to work overtime.
In my honest opinion, I have really no idea if these business
owners' views are accurate at all but since they are risking their
capital and assets to run their business, there may be some truth
in their assertions afterall as they would want to know everything
that goes on around their businesses.
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heard the same thing, experienced the same thing. our SMEs are
suffering not because there are too many foreigners, but too few
locals who want the jobs.
so what if our populations hit 10 million?
don't know who are included in the count for population.
but i will be happy if there are more people here to shop eat
spend money and pay taxes. Our retail business will boom, our GST
income will rise, ....happy for everybody.
but if we have people who come here to just to work, whether
from Malaysia, china, india, phillippines.....then take their money
back to JB, china, india, phillippines...they squeeze our public
transport, take our jobs, add to our social problem,...then we
better not have them around.
It is not how many, 5 million, 6 million, or 10 million, it is
what kind of people we want in our population.
