REACH 480 - What are your thoughts on the labour market conditions in Singapore? How can Singaporeans better prepare themselves and remain competitive in the workforce?
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28 Jul 2023 (10am - 7pm)
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28/07/2023, 9:59 am - +REACH: *π’ Topic π’*
On Thursday 27 July, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) reported a decline in retrenchments following three consecutive quarters of increases in its Labour Market Advance Release for the second quarter of 2023. The report also showed further signs of cooling of labour demand and that unemployment rates remained low.
MOM estimates that in the near term, employment growth could ease and be uneven across industries. They added that tourism-related sectors are expected to see continued improvements in labour market conditions.
*π¬ What are your thoughts on the labour market conditions in Singapore? How can Singaporeans better prepare themselves and remain competitive in the workforce?*
MOM affirmed their commitment to supporting our workers to find good jobs despite the economic uncertainty ahead, highlighting on the Workforce Singapore (WSG) initiatives that helps jobseekers reskill and take on new job roles. MOM also shared on the recently launched CareersFinder beta feature on WSG’s MyCareersFuture job portal to help jobseekers find more career and training opportunities.
MOM added the slowdown in total employment growth reflects the moderation in Singapore’s economic growth in previous quarters as a result of global economic headwinds. It added: “Looking ahead, firms appear to be adopting a more cautious stance towards hiring and wage increases.”
π Report: Labour Market Advance Release Second Quarter 2023
https://stats.mom.gov.sg/iMAS_PdfLibrary/mrsd-LMAR-Q2-2023.pdf
π CareersFinder beta feature
https://careersfinder.mycareersfuture.gov.sg
π https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/jobs/retrenchments-in-s-pore-decline-for-first-time-in-a-year-but-signs-of-cooling-labour-market-persist
π https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/mom-labour-market-advance-release-q2-2023-retrenchments-down-unemployment-low-3657801
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28/07/2023, 10:05 am - +Noraini: August no more AMEX foreign Exchange globally. Workers retrench including those in Singapore
28/07/2023, 10:07 am - +Frankie Wee: Economy slow
28/07/2023, 10:15 am - +9richard: Just a side note, find the WSG website difficult to use. Would like to filter career for different age group instead of all info in the current website
28/07/2023, 10:18 am - +~L: Training is critical. We need to respond much faster to changes in economic need. Companies I talk to say they cannot hire Singaporeans, partly due to skill shortage and partly due to lack of competitive spirit (too complacent and lacking dynamic thinking).
I again say that the school system here only works for a few people and leaves many on the sidelines. It will take a decade to change the school system, so we need to address the need more quickly through vocational training targeted at what companies will need over the next 5 years.
28/07/2023, 10:21 am - +Frankie Wee: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/26/fed-meeting-july-2023-.html
28/07/2023, 10:21 am - +Frankie Wee: Fed is likely hike again affected global economy and job
28/07/2023, 10:23 am - +Ken: Already affecting
28/07/2023, 10:30 am - +Frankie Wee: Technology become AI replacement human those who are graduated high educated will have available job for them. The old skill will soon gone.
28/07/2023, 10:30 am - +Frankie Wee: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/singapore-startup-silicon-box-opens-s265-billion-chips-foundry-video-3642991
28/07/2023, 10:31 am - +Frankie Wee: Economy more challenging
28/07/2023, 10:35 am - +Smiley face: Hi L, good insights into today's and tomorrows... thanks!
The traditional ways of education from basics to advanced knowledge and skills must be reexamined not just to fit into the immediate and the near future.
The key competitive advantage is about an entire population and the workforce are able to fit and sit into a fully digitised and the highest automations era unseen since the last industrial revolution which happened to be about a century ago.
To revisit what it liked in the early 1900s and how the society reacted, the pitfalls and the chosen path of conflicts and two world wars!
For SG, it's not just mere upskill and workfare that will enable the short term or the shortest time to bounce and blend into the requirements of the evolving markets whether it is a skilled based job or a thinking job. These both jobs are highly vulnerable to be replaced by the forces of the automates!
Reskilling is perhaps the ultimate victor for any economy! Just like the Japanese or Koreans. Let's take the Meiji era, the Japanese understood and saw the fire needs to reskill and to reposition itself before it was too late to turn the corners of change!
- - in progress - -
28/07/2023, 10:36 am - +Smiley face: Always challenging or simply sitting under the tree and waiting for the fruits to drop on your head,...
28/07/2023, 10:39 am - +~L: Well said!
28/07/2023, 10:40 am - +Smiley face: "The Chindu, the Chingay or the Chincheong...?"
Chindu means just pushing the way...
Chingay means just immerse into it...
Chincheong means just dash in all directions...
28/07/2023, 10:42 am - +Smiley face: Let's think deeper and let's try to HELP our SG to come out victor in this long tunnel of transformation...
L, you are younger, you and the rest of our young ones...CAN DO IT ALL!
Thanks L...let's start today's deep dive to find all hidden jewels of opportunities...all for survival sake!
28/07/2023, 10:46 am - +~L: There is so much material out there, for free, that people can use to upskill and transform their careers. We just need to focus and create structure that directs people to take the initiative and ownership of their future.
28/07/2023, 10:46 am - +Frankie Wee: Singapore future where humans being able to reskill what kind of upskill in 2040
McDonald’s crew no longer
Management available job to take care of AI service
F & B also the same as above
singapore hawker culture unesco will keep the same as history <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 10:47 am - +KL: So if I learn a lot of skill but no degree can I still have the opportunities? or is it by network ?
28/07/2023, 10:49 am - +Thomas: The competition for skills is very competitive. There are the new skills like AI , new IT technology , the green technology and Fintech etc . There are the traditional skills in engineering , hand craftsman skills competing with the same core of Singaporean. In this, the pull factor will be latest sassy and better paying jobs and not the hard traditional skills jobs where it is under hot sun and generally not highly paid . I am not sure how to increase the attractiveness of these jobs but essential to Singapore economy. More professional recognition and have the companies pay more but it will put themselves out of the market. But look at the plumber or qualified home electrician, they get 5 figures pay if they work hard and they are their own boss. No good solution ..
28/07/2023, 10:50 am - +KL: I should ask when u order macdonald , did you use table service ? I was glad that Mac was self service last time. cos now it make my heat broken when I see our eldery shaking their hand serving the meal to those young healthy ppl machian they are handicapped .
28/07/2023, 10:52 am - +Smiley face: The traditional man vs the Renaissance man...
What is Talent and why foreign Talents?
28/07/2023, 10:54 am - +Frankie Wee: Foreign Talents do not compare Singaporean’s skill
Foreign Talents already taken grant from govt sg. Much to work are mid level skill and pay well.
28/07/2023, 10:54 am - +Smiley face: It's comprehensible to live in a highly modern city... watching the elderly serving all...
Importantly, dignity at work.
Circumstances do matter in many of these simple and yet relevant servicing jobs.
So how to upgrade this thing called Dignity?
Thank you.
28/07/2023, 10:55 am - +~L: Being employed will often need a degree, so maybe upskill by doing an online degree (which will cost money); if want to learn skills for free (which there is a lot of material available) then you have to source an income through freelance and online opportunities (of which there are lots, but you have to find them)
28/07/2023, 10:58 am - +KL: Thanks for the truthful replied .
28/07/2023, 10:58 am - +TD: https://goodyfeed.com/msian-12k-a-month-singapore/
28/07/2023, 10:59 am - +Smiley face: What is Chinos?
Unable..
Thanks L
28/07/2023, 11:03 am - +Frankie Wee: Can I imagine Apple going launch new “vision pro headset” it has alot of learn new skill and experience digitally different skill instead take degree courses.
It’s like self learning or E-learning manage to help save cost.
28/07/2023, 11:03 am - +Frankie Wee: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/technology/apple-headset-virtual-reality-wwdc.html
28/07/2023, 11:08 am - +Smiley face: What's the background of this new product?
Who created it and what are the future products in the apple tunnel of creations?
Talents or Talented?
28/07/2023, 11:10 am - +Smiley face: What if Tesla, Intel and Apple were to come in sync as one big thingie of commercial products and services?
So how is it going to play out, sooner than later...
What are the broad implications to the world of Economics?
28/07/2023, 11:10 am - +Smiley face: "Accelerating Performances & Pitfalls: Jung & Maslow ways?"
"What is human and what is a group of human with divest backgrounds from literacy to livelihoods?"
- - anonymity
28/07/2023, 11:11 am - +Smiley face: "The world is like a game of chess"
- - anonymity
"δΈηε°±εδΈηζ£"
28/07/2023, 11:12 am - +Smiley face: SG happens to be at the Front row of these rows of chess... visualise it...?
28/07/2023, 11:13 am - +Frankie Wee: Background cone from human’s mind power to create innovation and showed commercially the world that USA is advance technology.
28/07/2023, 11:52 am - +REACH: *Dear Contributors*
We want to *HEAR MORE* from you!
*π¬ What are your thoughts on the labour market conditions in Singapore? How can Singaporeans better prepare themselves and remain competitive in the workforce?*
Megan π
28/07/2023, 12:00 pm - +KL: is skill shortage or high cost ?
28/07/2023, 12:01 pm - +Ken: Provide more course… but with reasonable background.
I have attend classes for python coding with people don’t even know how to use excel or install software
28/07/2023, 12:02 pm - +Ken: Want to do conversion course… just ridiculous spending 1/2 day getting the class ready
28/07/2023, 12:04 pm - +#.@: i know that feeling.
28/07/2023, 12:08 pm - +lesli: π±
28/07/2023, 12:08 pm - +Ken: Old man brought computer and want to try python π
I feel I take the course also don’t dare use
28/07/2023, 12:09 pm - +Ken: The content is good but the people who take the course 1/2 don’t think can even pass
28/07/2023, 12:09 pm - +Ken: How to employer trust the course and the certificate
28/07/2023, 12:10 pm - +~L: Yep
28/07/2023, 12:11 pm - +Ken: The person teaching need to ensure they pass via verbal testing π
Like that also can… how can I find a proper course? That was provide by NTUC some more
28/07/2023, 12:12 pm - +Ken: Cannot be everyone pass, if they don’t pass then government don’t subsidise?
28/07/2023, 12:12 pm - +Ken: Then certificate got what use after taking
28/07/2023, 12:12 pm - +Ken: I won’t hire anyone taking the course know half are maybe don’t even know their stuff
28/07/2023, 12:14 pm - +Ken: By the way the lecturer is awesome. Totally over qualified to teach.
28/07/2023, 12:15 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Labour conditions in Singapore
1. Based on what I know with people around me or people I know, many fresh graduates have no problem getting jobs or internship except a very few.
2. But mature workers around the age of 50 plus to 60 years old - face pressure from companies that do annual review - either to cut their salaries, or do demotion, or resign if do neither even though there are no degradation in performance.
28/07/2023, 12:16 pm - +Rama: True
28/07/2023, 12:16 pm - +Rama: Agree
28/07/2023, 12:16 pm - +#.@: learning hub, python and analytics is it ?
28/07/2023, 12:16 pm - +Ken: π€£ errr
28/07/2023, 12:16 pm - +Rama: Possibly
28/07/2023, 12:16 pm - +#.@: I joined for the fun of it also... end up I spend most of time on my phone while waiting the resolution of technical issues hahaha
28/07/2023, 12:17 pm - +#.@: mostly due to space, syntax, typo errors
28/07/2023, 12:18 pm - +Ken: I learn quite a lot cause I learn by myself with the lesson helps a lot on basic that I won’t know if I didn’t learn from basic course
28/07/2023, 12:19 pm - +Ken: Same
28/07/2023, 12:20 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
But thought that government official retirement age is 67 years old.
Why companies (even GLCs) conduct such practices annually on all mature workers?
Shouldn't mature workers not subjected to such age discrimination?
28/07/2023, 12:25 pm - +KL: on point 2 > Not really true when u say no reason , normally the boss will try to create a reason one. :) ,even though there are no degradation in performance , they still can say something one wait you go HR they need to answer one. one of my ex-boss ( ex-ex company) have a list of reason in place. Need me to help you list it down the "reason" or "excuse" ? <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 12:30 pm - +KL: Chinese call θ«ι‘»ζ 。
28/07/2023, 12:30 pm - +KL: Even worse is they wont get retrenchment package etc, even go to MOM no use one cos the reson is grey area vaild. Even u go MOM , some wont get any job in the end as there will be word of mouth about this employee rat on his ex-ex employer. <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 12:31 pm - +Noraini: A lot of mature employees now on p/t job. Seen alot
28/07/2023, 12:31 pm - +KL: Don't worry that why Sg invest grab mah, <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 12:38 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
The best part is, the mature worker got 2 awards for implementing a project well done and win a pre-sales project.
Come to annual review, he was told his salary too high, need to demote and fetch a lower salary.
It is a GLC that conduct such practices.
28/07/2023, 12:41 pm - +KL: Wah the reason you provide scary sia cos not work in public sector or Gov before cos I no study one, thus gov wont give chance to work with them. . but if you ask about private sector, Yes the client very happy ah , the ex ex company will create a reason. really depend . Sometime they will use same reason on 5 to 6 ppl , and see who take the bait to resign <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 12:45 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Private sectors more rampant.
Just look at the current big tech retrenchment.
Whether top performers or not, is a big axe that drop and out people go.
GLC will take more elaborate approach to cover all manpower legal issues - and then do the unwholesome practices.
Ask the older folks in GLCs, they have alot of stories to tell.
28/07/2023, 12:48 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Based on what I know, people's career up to 50 years old - can be very smooth and plain sailing.
But the moment the age 50 years and above - be prepared for career instability.
This is what many people experience.
28/07/2023, 12:49 pm - +KL: So u talking about 50 ,that consider eldery in my ex ex pte company if u not in management level . Normally will start bait you once u turn 35 or 40. Of course I cant blame the company as they can get cheaper source across the border. <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 12:53 pm - +Smiley face: 28 July, 2023
"H1, H2, H3 concept of different"
Differentiation?
What is education and what is teaching to attain proficiency at specific level, the competency and future relevance?
It is not a "cut and paste" and hopefully the open wound will heal by itself?
It is also more than a first-aid plaster just to cover the hole!
So how to rethink and reskill a generation or together with the present cohort of our workforce in phases? Starting with the most vulnerable jobs and onto the middle and mid-high range of jobs.
Inferential?
In every new way there are bound to be casualty of changes and changing.
Prospecting such a scenario of chaos, we should attempt to plan for a softer landing the potential job lost and to recreate new ones to equalise if not, to minimise social disruptions. There are ways to create new roles!
- - in progress - -
28/07/2023, 12:55 pm - +Frankie Wee: This is re-employment by mom
28/07/2023, 12:56 pm - +Frankie Wee: https://www.mom.gov.sg/employment-practices/re-employment
28/07/2023, 12:57 pm - +Frankie Wee: There will be some change policy if new skill AI
28/07/2023, 12:59 pm - +KL: Aiyo, company think u old , inefficient and ugly. U still stay and ask for re-employment ? Mean you asking for it sia. They have 101 ways to make ur life miserable one. one way is ask you handle 200 calls a day or hand in a stuff in a extreme extreme tight deadline. <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:01 pm - +KL: frankly I learn so much evil management stuff haven't use it before , later karma then not nice ya <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:01 pm - +Frankie Wee: Because of upskill or upgrade the new system like working half hour a day
28/07/2023, 1:01 pm - +Frankie Wee: Technology is advance
28/07/2023, 1:01 pm - +KL: u cant fully automate emails and calls <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:01 pm - +Frankie Wee: Boss want to buy AI instead old skill
28/07/2023, 1:02 pm - +Frankie Wee: Hard to explain the future π
28/07/2023, 1:02 pm - +Frankie Wee: But I believe is possible
28/07/2023, 1:03 pm - +KL: I think optima and mixed is crucial , imagine u kanna a issue u call the company always a AI bots chat or replied. by the time you pick up the call they scold u like hell. Like OCBC scaming too many AI and bot thus delay. Then millions from been scam <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:15 pm - +Smiley face: Business Models?
1) Foreign owned company with foreign boss and foreign colleagues? (large to X large to XXX large)
2) Local company with foreign boss and foreign colleagues? (medium to large)
3) Local company with local boss and foreign colleagues? (small to medium)
4) Local company with local boss, his family and relatives and all local colleagues? (small)
What are the issues in these four business models?
28/07/2023, 1:21 pm - +Smiley face: H1?
The basic line of work abilities that is to think.
H2?
The intermediate level of work abilities that is the thinking and the doing.
H3?
The advanced level of work abilities that is to think, to work on it and the heart to do it all into one.
28/07/2023, 1:22 pm - +Thomas: Makes no difference as now limited by the foreign staffs quota you can employed based on the number of Singaporean and PR you have. That's why Singaporean and PR are very precious now
28/07/2023, 1:23 pm - +Smiley face: Circumvent or borrow "head count" from elsewhere...
28/07/2023, 1:23 pm - +KL: The ratio seem to be top secert, I don't even know the ratio so cant comment <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:24 pm - +Smiley face: Yes, it's a game of ratio, ration and rational!
Thank you.
28/07/2023, 1:24 pm - +KL: I think is optimal ratio not ratio till become secret and cant be report <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:26 pm - +Thomas: Better don’t play play. MOM does direct call to foreign employees to understand HR practices of the company. Got caught and you be barred from employing foreign workers. Basically, shut your business down
28/07/2023, 1:27 pm - +TD: I saw this happening in a GLC. Mass retrenchments of the older managers. Totally disheartening
28/07/2023, 1:27 pm - +Smiley face: Use the famous Dr Goh Keng Swee proven method that is to spot checks with no prior notice!
28/07/2023, 1:28 pm - +Smiley face: Why axed the older if not oldest workers?
Rational or Ratio?
28/07/2023, 1:28 pm - +KL: Oh ya , really ? Actually is they issue black letter. and the company act act than okay liao Then u must ask how hardworking is the MOM right ? They have so many company how they check ? They call HR no use one la. HR also get salary only leh <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:28 pm - +Smiley face: You don't dare to play it doesn't mean others won't play...
28/07/2023, 1:28 pm - +TD: Cost cutting
28/07/2023, 1:30 pm - +Smiley face: One factor
There are a few more reasons...
New blood and old blood, new shoots and the dead woods? True?
28/07/2023, 1:31 pm - +TD: 75 25. More loss of decades of knowledge than deadwood. Imho. If it were just deadwood, the ground managers wouldn't have reacted so badly.
28/07/2023, 1:33 pm - +Smiley face: Lost in the handing over and taking over the process and properly!
28/07/2023, 1:33 pm - +TD: Lost cause of the way they were let go. If you were cut in that fashion, who will handover?
28/07/2023, 1:34 pm - +TD: And this was in a GLC
28/07/2023, 1:34 pm - +Smiley face: Organisational politics!
28/07/2023, 1:34 pm - +Smiley face: Which?
28/07/2023, 1:35 pm - +TD: Possibly the largest
28/07/2023, 1:35 pm - +Thomas: Err.. they don’t call HR directly but the workers or visit them at their home at night. They don’t inform the company. I kenna …
28/07/2023, 1:35 pm - +Smiley face: Can it be equal to the entire civil service?
28/07/2023, 1:36 pm - +TD: This message was deleted
28/07/2023, 1:37 pm - +Smiley face: Do you inform your camp general that tomorrow at 8am you will arrive to check on things or you drive into the camp before 8am and not 8pm?
28/07/2023, 1:37 pm - +TD: 5 figure total staff count. Not near the CS's size.
28/07/2023, 1:37 pm - +KL: Why they visit worker when they are checking employment ratio or unjustified retrenchment ?
28/07/2023, 1:37 pm - +Thomas: For older workers , they call the children to confirm their employment ….. I also kenna
28/07/2023, 1:38 pm - +Smiley face: You only see the soldier and not the entire camp in the middle of the daily exercises, aka daily working hours?
28/07/2023, 1:38 pm - +KL: frankly my that time in that ex ex company most of them are old single. I don't think anyone complain to MOM. But that ex ex company wise recv letter for hiring more than 40% EP I know thou. not considering PR <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:39 pm - +Smiley face: These days...you have foreign workers putting fake addresses to the authorities including banks too?
28/07/2023, 1:42 pm - +Thomas: They basically look at the employment contract and payment and tally with what the company provides to MOM. When they call or check, they already have the details
28/07/2023, 1:44 pm - +Thomas: Recent cases where companies used older “Singaporean workers” for quota purposes
28/07/2023, 1:44 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Oh.
GLCs practice this when staff hit 50 years old.
But MOM guidelines say 62 years old.
So many mature workers kenna short-changed already.
Why MOM do investigation why such practices can be conducted - not in line with MOM guidelines?
28/07/2023, 1:49 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Private companies I won't second guess.
Many companies I heard do such practices.
But what surprised me most is that even GLCs do such practices.
Before 50 years old, all seems heavenly as long as you perform well.
But once hit 50 years old, many patterns come out already.
Good performers turn bad automatically.
28/07/2023, 1:50 pm - +KL: Any reason why private can do ? but GLC cant ? <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:51 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
GLCs alot of mangament are previously from the civil service.
28/07/2023, 1:51 pm - +KL: May I ask what you think about Civil service ?
28/07/2023, 1:51 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Civil service don't behave this way.
28/07/2023, 1:52 pm - +KL: i mean they are hardworking people and nice people right or study a lot right ? <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:57 pm - +KL: Frankly GLC are still Pte LTd , so very hard to say . <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 1:57 pm - +Frankie Wee: I recalled to find it
https://www.smartnation.gov.sg/initiatives/artificial-intelligence/
28/07/2023, 1:59 pm - +REACH: *π’ Topic π’*
On Thursday 27 July, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) reported a decline in retrenchments following three consecutive quarters of increases in its Labour Market Advance Release for the second quarter of 2023. The report also showed further signs of cooling of labour demand and that unemployment rates remained low.
MOM estimates that in the near term, employment growth could ease and be uneven across industries. They added that tourism-related sectors are expected to see continued improvements in labour market conditions.
*π¬ What are your thoughts on the labour market conditions in Singapore? How can Singaporeans better prepare themselves and remain competitive in the workforce?*
MOM affirmed their commitment to supporting our workers to find good jobs despite the economic uncertainty ahead, highlighting on the Workforce Singapore (WSG) initiatives that helps jobseekers reskill and take on new job roles. MOM also shared on the recently launched CareersFinder beta feature on WSG’s MyCareersFuture job portal to help jobseekers find more career and training opportunities.
MOM added the slowdown in total employment growth reflects the moderation in Singapore’s economic growth in previous quarters as a result of global economic headwinds. It added: “Looking ahead, firms appear to be adopting a more cautious stance towards hiring and wage increases.”
π Report: Labour Market Advance Release Second Quarter 2023
https://stats.mom.gov.sg/iMAS_PdfLibrary/mrsd-LMAR-Q2-2023.pdf
π CareersFinder beta feature
https://careersfinder.mycareersfuture.gov.sg
π https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/jobs/retrenchments-in-s-pore-decline-for-first-time-in-a-year-but-signs-of-cooling-labour-market-persist
π https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/mom-labour-market-advance-release-q2-2023-retrenchments-down-unemployment-low-3657801
28/07/2023, 1:59 pm - +Frankie Wee: I think age is not issue if person very rich never want to work or want start investment <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 2:02 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
GLCs are public listed.
Many GLCs HR guidelines adopt the civil service guidelines.
But come to mature workers, they come out with different patterns.
I think many mature workers feel very disappointed - many are long service award workers and many perform well throughout their careers, including winning various awards along the way.
So I feel that MOM should give a pat talk to the GLCs CEOs - to treat their mature workers well.
Don't treat them as a dispensable items once they hit old age.
28/07/2023, 2:04 pm - +KL: Is the GLC making money ? cos if u reason out, sound not logical hard to win the argument.
28/07/2023, 2:05 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
GLCs are making ton of money and many are profitable.
Yet the way they treat the mature staff - make the mature workers very disappointed.
28/07/2023, 2:05 pm - +Smiley face: Game of proxy...old game!
28/07/2023, 2:05 pm - +KL: Wow i did not know that . i thought they making losses like singpost, Comfort etc <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 2:06 pm - +KL: Sorry but not sure can /or did you ask the person to seek labour union help ? <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 2:07 pm - +Smiley face: The latest analytics of the age group for top CEOs are born 1982-1965...
The youngest it is the more tech related and savvy this organisation is and the CEO!
28/07/2023, 2:07 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
The senior management will blare in their dinner and dance how well they do annually, what projects they have captured with songs and dances.
Then come annual review, they terkan the mature workers.
28/07/2023, 2:07 pm - +Smiley face: The oldest lots are in the process of retiring and succession to follow..
28/07/2023, 2:08 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Pmets where got union. <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 2:10 pm - +KL: Sorry ah i thought Labour unions can help when too many impacted . so my EX-company will axe and replace one by one so that no one know <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 2:12 pm - +KL: So i learn another way from my ex-boss :) . but better don't use it , wait karma sia <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 2:12 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
If don't believe, MOM can dig out all the records of the mature workers from 50 years old onwards, they will discover the systematic approach of age discrimination towards the mature workers.
I have come across many of such mature workers who share with me quietly.
28/07/2023, 2:13 pm - +Frankie Wee: I do not know about it GLC <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 2:26 pm - +Smiley face: Is it a truth that workers regardless of education background, once reaches the ripe age of 50 yrs and older who are middle to mid-high levels in an organisation; the bigger the organisation is the higher the probabilities of losing their jobs?
Are these PMETs more vulnerable to retrenchment or a slower process of managing these individuals out of the organisation?
28/07/2023, 2:29 pm - +Smiley face: What if some people have no divine concept of karma because these folks believe YOLO (you only live once) ?
28/07/2023, 2:29 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
MOM do an investigation will discover more of such cases.
It is rampant.
I crack a joke with my ex-boss.
You see you do it to others, when your turn come, you become the victim.
He just resignly say what else can I do?
And true enough, he also kenna.
28/07/2023, 2:31 pm - +Smiley face: What is it generation after generation? Why?
28/07/2023, 2:34 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
So I am telling and preparing those younger folks.
Don't assume you can retire at 67 years old the official retirement age.
Don't spend frivolously and lavishly during your young age when you are doing well in your career.
Always save your earnings and invest wisely on safe financial apparatus.
Because the moment you hit 50 years old, you will subject to all kinds of age discrimination in your career.
Don't assume everything is plain sailing.
Always be frugal, save, invest prudently for your retirement - and assume you will have to retire at 50 years old.
28/07/2023, 2:36 pm - +Smiley face: Career change, just to travel a longer road of survival?
28/07/2023, 2:51 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
"CPF scam victims have limited recourse – that’s why cyber literacy is so crucial.
Scammers will keep coming for our CPF savings or bank accounts. Making scams harder and riskier for criminals or developing ways to share losses aren’t a panacea, says Reed Smith lawyer Bryan Tan".
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/cpf-scams-recover-money-cybersecurity-literacy-phishing-malware-3658016#:~:text=CPF%20scam%20victims,lawyer%20Bryan%20Tan
28/07/2023, 2:52 pm - +Smiley face: Same for banks...limited or no crawl back once your money is lost...
28/07/2023, 2:53 pm - +Frankie Wee: The ppl older click website is malware scam.
28/07/2023, 2:56 pm - +Frankie Wee: Development need to work on cybersecurity with AI police in future
28/07/2023, 2:56 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Just now I happen to peep into an elderly handphone and I noticed that in his WhatsApp, he kept alot of foreign calls with + sign.
He click on those dangerous messages to read.
I immediately speak audibly to warn my wife about anonymous messages to be careful about unknowingly downloading malware and scammers can scan away people life savings.
That elderly overhead what I say to my wife, and turn around looking at me nervously.
I also don't know how to help him. <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 2:58 pm - +Frankie Wee: Advise elderly public ensure safeguard is App Store instead of website sometime fake website.
28/07/2023, 2:59 pm - +Frankie Wee: Also SingPass is very important never give out OTP otherwise is too late scam likely to sell away their SingPass
28/07/2023, 3:00 pm - +Frankie Wee: Called it a foreign talents become crime and thief
28/07/2023, 3:01 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Malware downloaded already.
He can only do 3 things:-
1. Go to apps settings, look for suspicious apps and remove it.
2. Or do factory reset to remove the malware but lose all his data.
3. Remove his SIM card and throw away his handphone.
Before doing the above, don't login to his Singpass, CPF or his bank account.
Else scammers will keylogged his id, password, OTP and steal his life savings.
28/07/2023, 3:04 pm - +Frankie Wee: When this happened didn’t bother looking at url they will happened to click and too later
28/07/2023, 3:04 pm - +Frankie Wee: <Media omitted>
28/07/2023, 3:05 pm - +Frankie Wee: Smartphone not enough clever have secured warning
28/07/2023, 3:08 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
I thought the government is developing new features for ScamShield that can filter all scam messages and scam calls from WhatsApp and telegram?
I thought should be ready this year Aug 2023 time frame?
28/07/2023, 3:09 pm - +Frankie Wee: Need another project cybersecurity
28/07/2023, 3:18 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
Not many GLCs are like Aetos employing elderly to be security personnel to help in crowd control in NDP.
28/07/2023, 3:24 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ: <Media omitted>
28/07/2023, 3:38 pm - +Smiley face: 28 July, 2023
"Switching to the Higher Gears"
How to test the dynamics of an existing system?
Whether it is a small company or a big organisation? How to test the internal system of functions and capabilities?
In an example is the education of different students at various pace and placement.
"The Expert & The Ecoertise: A theory king or A TKK (teaching known knowledge) or A knowledgeable king; these personalities can be found in everywhere and in any no organisation too?"
- - anonymity
School daze?
One critical thinking is to enable a broadened application of the concepts in the syllabus into the real world situations and the "sound" answers to these situational tests shall be worth half of the entire grades of a student.
So who are supposed to qualified to teach and how to teach and test it?
Master teaching pupils and not just TKK to pupils.
How to craft situational or future questions and answers?
Trainee mechanics do the actual repairs and replacements of parts. Students in school doing actual chemistry or physics experiments or English and Chinese or Malay or Tamil languages, all are just not good enough! Why?
What you learned from the start of the doctrine of education into the University may or may not be useful or applicable to your first future jobs or the subsequent jobs! One unintended consequence is early "burnout" of students not furthering all kinds of upskilling or reskilling; they are too beaten by the hardcore of examinations and grades just to determine the level of intellect and their future?
How to exam and test students of all ages?
Working world?
One truth is when you accepted your first job and you worked for over 5 years, you are most likely to stay on or move on to the next similar roles or promotions or if not join your closer competitor's firm.
So when, why and what if a person's decided to switch job or a totally different job? Or going back to the schooling days, that person just dropped out of school? Or suicide?
What is the true meaning of learnings and going to someone or some place just to learn?
To earn a living? Or than living...
So what is next?
- - in progress - -
28/07/2023, 3:56 pm - +Rama: My employer
28/07/2023, 3:56 pm - +Rama: Yes
28/07/2023, 3:56 pm - +Rama: True
28/07/2023, 3:56 pm - +Rama: π³π€·♂️π€¦♂️π
28/07/2023, 3:57 pm - +Rama: Very true
28/07/2023, 3:58 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
You are lucky to have such employer.
28/07/2023, 3:58 pm - +Rama: Yes
28/07/2023, 3:58 pm - +Rama: At my age of 63, yes
28/07/2023, 3:59 pm - +REACH: *π’ Topic π’*
On Thursday 27 July, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) reported a decline in retrenchments following three consecutive quarters of increases in its Labour Market Advance Release for the second quarter of 2023. The report also showed further signs of cooling of labour demand and that unemployment rates remained low.
MOM estimates that in the near term, employment growth could ease and be uneven across industries. They added that tourism-related sectors are expected to see continued improvements in labour market conditions.
*π¬ What are your thoughts on the labour market conditions in Singapore? How can Singaporeans better prepare themselves and remain competitive in the workforce?*
MOM affirmed their commitment to supporting our workers to find good jobs despite the economic uncertainty ahead, highlighting on the Workforce Singapore (WSG) initiatives that helps jobseekers reskill and take on new job roles. MOM also shared on the recently launched CareersFinder beta feature on WSG’s MyCareersFuture job portal to help jobseekers find more career and training opportunities.
MOM added the slowdown in total employment growth reflects the moderation in Singapore’s economic growth in previous quarters as a result of global economic headwinds. It added: “Looking ahead, firms appear to be adopting a more cautious stance towards hiring and wage increases.”
π Report: Labour Market Advance Release Second Quarter 2023
https://stats.mom.gov.sg/iMAS_PdfLibrary/mrsd-LMAR-Q2-2023.pdf
π CareersFinder beta feature
https://careersfinder.mycareersfuture.gov.sg
π https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/jobs/retrenchments-in-s-pore-decline-for-first-time-in-a-year-but-signs-of-cooling-labour-market-persist
π https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/mom-labour-market-advance-release-q2-2023-retrenchments-down-unemployment-low-3657801
28/07/2023, 4:10 pm - +Smiley face: "Who was Issac Newton and who was before Issac; who was Galileo Galilei and who was before Galileo...? What is Singapore and who arrived earlier than the Portuguese, the British and the Spanish; who and why and what about all these thingies?
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28/07/2023, 4:20 pm - +~L: <Media omitted>
28/07/2023, 4:33 pm - +Smiley face: Complacency and the Fallacy of Generational Successes?
There are valuable lessons, experience and true expertise in these historical evidential consequences ...
One big virtue of the Western society, they are willing to learn and not just learning alone will be successful; the intellectual curiosity and the conviction to improve and innovate from the predecessors knowledge of wisdom, of scientific discoveries and of humility!
The opposites are full of selfness, arrogance and lastly, ignorance of the past, of the present and no sight of the future!
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28/07/2023, 4:43 pm - +SL: Cleaning maybe is to train collaboration, farming to train green knowledge, management skill etc maybe
28/07/2023, 4:46 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
My close friend comments:-
Senior workers after being retrenched or out of work due to non performance, don't contribute to unemployment statistics if they are not actively looking for another job.
So we have to read those stats with a pinch of salt. <This message was edited>
28/07/2023, 4:46 pm - +SL: Just curious to ask Is Civilization will continue even without issac or Galileo? π€
28/07/2023, 4:50 pm - +Smiley face: Hi SL,
It will survive but the rate and ratio of survival vary across regions and continents.
Welcome back, SL
(anonymity owes you an essay on Japan in the 80s and the similarity of both its domestic & foreign policies, have not forgotten, it's still WIP!)
28/07/2023, 4:50 pm - +Smiley face: Who arrived before these distinguished folks?
28/07/2023, 4:51 pm - +SL: What govt doing on the training and retraining of the workforce is very relevant. It helps the workforce to stay relevant, ensure competitiveness, and be ready for changes in future job environments due to new industry revolutions.
28/07/2023, 4:53 pm - +SL: Many of them, if I m not wrong, these named folks are only from the 16 century. There are many beyond the time and boundary
28/07/2023, 4:55 pm - +SL: Hi π, nice to be back.. I agree the ratio of growth will be very.. π thanks in advance for the essay, and I m really looking forward to it π♂️
28/07/2023, 4:56 pm - +Smiley face: Here it goes, in the shortest form!
Trying to recall four decades of facts...into one paragraph.
PM Nakasone administration policies on defence, on NATO and the eventual death of its semiconductor industry; all are profoundly evidential in today's PM Fumio Kishida, otherwise , perhaps it is the legacy of PM Shinzo Abe!
28/07/2023, 4:58 pm - +Smiley face: Only when one delves into beyond time, you will be shocked and surprised and there after connecting millions of dots into a big big picture....now and tomorrow!
28/07/2023, 5:03 pm - +SL: In western, the craftsman is important. To survive in the future, I start taking classes to prepare for my future work on craftsmanship, starting from the ITE course, in which robots or AI (generative, supermodel, cognitive) is slow in development
28/07/2023, 5:05 pm - +Smiley face: Practical....
28/07/2023, 5:05 pm - +Smiley face: "Strip the pump, cut the battery apart! Weigh the gravity and quantify each chemical...."it's not a+b+c, it's all about what is in A, B, C , and what is before A, B,C that matters most and it happens to be of curiosity only to a few will do it...!"
- - anonymity
28/07/2023, 5:06 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
"Banks in Singapore to start charging customers by November for issuing Singdollar cheques.
Singapore will eliminate corporate cheques by end-2025, while individuals will be able to use cheques “for a period" after 2025, say MAS and ABS."
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/banks-charge-cheques-issue-processing-november-dbs-uob-ocbc-3661001#:~:text=Banks%20in%20Singapore%20to,say%20MAS%20and%20ABS.
28/07/2023, 5:06 pm - +Smiley face: What is a hands-on mechanic and how about a chemist or a physical geographer?
28/07/2023, 5:06 pm - +Valli: Hiring companies (including public agencies)in SG may still be less willing or open to hire older workers (>40YO) even if they possess the appropriate skills/accreditations for some job functions. A review of HR policies change will help.
Provision of mid-career job rotation pathways among all civil & public service for non-critical/support based job scope can help reduce stagnant skill sets.
Some industries face restrictions with labour supply due to high hiring cost/low supply of labour/difficulty in matching required accreditation. Relocking at the training programmes available to increase supply of workers may help ease crunch.
28/07/2023, 5:06 pm - +Smiley face: Toward full Digitisation!
28/07/2023, 5:07 pm - +SL: In my view, the semicon industry will not die. It will rejuvenate in another form factor, material, energy consumption. I.e. is what Robert Noyce invented in the 50s still valid?
28/07/2023, 5:07 pm - +Valli: Perhaps provide internship opportunities for older workers for more generalist job functions for statutory and public agencies.
28/07/2023, 5:08 pm - +SL: Curiosity drives civilization
28/07/2023, 5:08 pm - +Smiley face: Yes and yupp!
Bet big on Intel ! Into 2025, that is 10 Q away, Intel will breakthrough a new way of super conductivity!
In the meantime, watch this game of change!
Thanks SL for bringing up!
28/07/2023, 5:09 pm - +SL: Chemist that developed a synthesis material?
28/07/2023, 5:09 pm - +Smiley face: Intellectual curiosity starts everything and turns everything... history !
28/07/2023, 5:11 pm - +Smiley face: Yes, so what is next after this material and how about applying into other materials, will it react and will it blend or will it go apart or using a third compound or element; all come as ONE!
ITS ALL STARTED WITH ONE...
Thanks SL for challenging this limited mind, anonymity!
28/07/2023, 5:12 pm - +Smiley face: Apply it across things like financial or long term investment strategies!
What is expert and what is expertise?
Ratio?
28/07/2023, 5:12 pm - +SL: Lately, I saw an article published that Korea has break thru the research of room temperature superconductors, I think China will follow soon.
28/07/2023, 5:12 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
"Singapore 'in close contact' with India to seek exemption from export ban on non-basmati rice.
Non-basmati rice from India makes up about 17 per cent of Singapore’s imported rice, says the Singapore Food Agency."
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/singapore-india-nonbasmati-rice-export-ban-exemption-3660971#:~:text=Singapore%20%27in%20close,Singapore%20Food%20Agency.
28/07/2023, 5:13 pm - +Smiley face: Using this example, apply it into WIRELESS charging and connectivity?
28/07/2023, 5:13 pm - +SL: Space exploration, the space is big enough for everyone
28/07/2023, 5:14 pm - +Smiley face: So what is a vacuum and how about air, atmospheric pressure at stratified altitude?
Will these known facts become tomorrow inventions from military purposes into the daily conveniences?
Air and vacuum!
28/07/2023, 5:16 pm - +Smiley face: This is a matter of higher order....the frontier of the unknown and selected scientists do know quite a bit but not ENOUGH to break it!
What is the entire universe is a number, a log and an Algo...
Logarithmic and algorithmic! Geometric!
28/07/2023, 5:17 pm - +SL: If there is a supercomputer of AI able to process yottabytes of data in femtosecond, no one human in this world can make a financial decision faster than it
28/07/2023, 5:18 pm - +Smiley face: Leonhard Euler, on infinitesimal calculus
28/07/2023, 5:18 pm - +Smiley face: It's now and not so long ago, the wall street boys did it with their trading models ...algo
28/07/2023, 5:19 pm - +Smiley face: Lead and lack
28/07/2023, 5:20 pm - +SL: India govt impose restriction to protect India interest after black sea grain deal expired.
28/07/2023, 5:20 pm - +Frankie Wee: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/banks-charge-cheques-issue-processing-november-dbs-uob-ocbc-3661001
28/07/2023, 5:21 pm - +Frankie Wee: Cheque will no more change to E-payment. How it development already.
28/07/2023, 5:22 pm - +Smiley face: India is the world biggest grain producer at 40% global grain mkt... half are NON bismati rice
Vietnam, Thailand and the USA are closing the 40% mark!
When India shouts aloud, please lend them your ears!
28/07/2023, 5:22 pm - +Frankie Wee: By the way they will retrenchment staffs soon
28/07/2023, 5:24 pm - +SL: Earth electromagnetic charging and low orbit microwave charging, minitured fusion reactor charging still cheaper and transferable
28/07/2023, 5:25 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
For rice we are at the mercy of exporters countries.
We can't find alternative to rice, such as culture meat, plant based meat or other countries that produce similar food.
Only Vietnam and Thailand plant rice for export.
So if India ban rice, our rice supplies will be squeezed and rice price will shoot through the roof.
28/07/2023, 5:25 pm - +Smiley face: Quantum entanglements, this innovation allows the broader use of the nuclear energy output using the least input to derive in the multiplier effect of gigawatts of free and endless power!
What will the oil producers reactions be?
28/07/2023, 5:26 pm - +Smiley face: Yes and yupp!
28/07/2023, 5:26 pm - +SL: In science fiction with curiosity, I think any design is potential, and aim for workable based on these fundamentals.
28/07/2023, 5:28 pm - +Smiley face: "The Business of Refining Oil "
India is the largest oil refiner, China and South Korea are neck to neck and the big Emirates are the exceptional !
So how to aspire to start a hot war in the South China sea given the above existential facts? Or just hot talking?
28/07/2023, 5:28 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
The only carbo alternatives are potatoes, sweet potatoes or wheat.
Wheat price also shooting through the roof as black sea got sealed.
28/07/2023, 5:28 pm - +SL: There are multiple theorists of unknowns in the universe, in the future our exploration will reveal in a timeline.
28/07/2023, 5:29 pm - ☸️ Danny εΏ:
But Asians don't usually eat wheats to replace rice.
28/07/2023, 5:29 pm - +Smiley face: Happening now in America.... National Ignition Facility.
There are two more secret bases ...
28/07/2023, 5:30 pm - +Smiley face: Mars trip
28/07/2023, 5:30 pm - +SL: The computation power decides the result. A quantum computer is the best commercial piece of art for this type of transaction I think.
28/07/2023, 5:30 pm - +Smiley face: You pay for it if you want it badly....
28/07/2023, 5:31 pm - +Smiley face: Envision this: Qcomp will be tomorrow's computers in abundance!
Yesterday typewriter and electric writer is today ipad in millions of sets...
Ratio!
28/07/2023, 5:32 pm - +Smiley face: That's how chatbots etc and specific super intelligent systems will connect and communicate...
28/07/2023, 5:33 pm - +SL: Oil producers will venture into the fusion energy market, repositioning crude oil as advanced material
28/07/2023, 5:33 pm - +Smiley face: So how to nano size the Qcomp into mass uses?
28/07/2023, 5:34 pm - +Smiley face: Yes, oil will prevail but the overlapping of the nuclear energy will be another addiction to the world!
So oil becoming the second fiddle in an enlarged orchestra.
28/07/2023, 5:34 pm - +SL: Maybe many many place and group in this world also have it?
28/07/2023, 5:34 pm - +Smiley face: SG should watch closely how this micro N energy evolves ....
28/07/2023, 5:36 pm - +Smiley face: Chinese and Russian plus Israel ...Two more hidden players....not appropriate to reveal here...
America is the front runner!
28/07/2023, 5:36 pm - +Smiley face: Not Iran nor N Korea!
28/07/2023, 5:37 pm - +Smiley face: One tell tale is the next N subs....
28/07/2023, 5:37 pm - +Smiley face: Drone driven missile technology....it goes round and round and up and down! Time will not be a factor and weather too!
28/07/2023, 5:37 pm - +SL: AI if I k not wrong, is using in everywhere.. Mining, farming, transportation, manufacturing etc
28/07/2023, 5:40 pm - +Smiley face: Speed matters most!
The future of flight?
SSI as chief pilot and the human as co-pilot....easy pissy!
The SSI will outperform all human captains from handling to communications and situational reactions....
Specialised Super intelligent systems (SSI)
28/07/2023, 5:43 pm - +SL: Vary products from oil will be developed. Hydrocarbon is very useful.
28/07/2023, 5:44 pm - +Smiley face: Using AI to count trees within a big area?
SG has over 6 millions standing trees and one third is under the care of Nparks...
So how on earth did we derive on this totality of over 6 million trees?
BTW, one more million trees shall be planted sooner .
So if we assume that each tree equals one human; 7 million trees will represent 7 million humans?
28/07/2023, 5:45 pm - +SL: Have anyone considered missile may be obsolete in the future?
28/07/2023, 5:45 pm - +Smiley face: Yes, hydrogen...next useful thingie!
Byproducts are many in this petrochemical game!
So how to wind off this addiction to oil?
28/07/2023, 5:47 pm - +Smiley face: Missile drones then come Laser Beam...
What is a laser point and how to defect a point from a laser beam?
What is a spectrum of color and let's start with the colors of the rainbow...seen and unseen range!
28/07/2023, 5:48 pm - +Smiley face: Apply this laser thingie into the quantum entanglements, you will solve it and the opposite you will be able to BLOCK IT too!
28/07/2023, 5:50 pm - +Smiley face: What are particles and how particles react, combine and divert?
Under atmospheric conditions and out of the atmosphere, stratospheric?
28/07/2023, 5:51 pm - +Smiley face: Outer most space whereby there are small pockets and chances of gravitational pull and push...how to use these pockets to drive beyond the reality?
Air and vacuum?
28/07/2023, 5:52 pm - +Smiley face: Apply it into super conductivity, and the rest will be a temporary history and a short time of relief!
28/07/2023, 5:54 pm - +Smiley face: From the known nano and pack them into micro and reversely unpacking into nanos.... Energy is formed! Energy happens to be a good friend to conductivity!
Energy is the key!
28/07/2023, 5:55 pm - +Smiley face: What is compression?
What is decompression?
What is the ratio?
28/07/2023, 5:57 pm - +Smiley face: The Chinese have successfully grown vegetables under space conditions...it has grown overly well!
Why? It is more than molecular and atomic structures!
28/07/2023, 5:59 pm - +Smiley face: How about salt and nitrogen ?(Nacl and N2)
28/07/2023, 6:05 pm - +~N: _"total employment growth in 2Q 2023 came sole from non-resident... mainly on construction..."_
Just curious, isn't there a foreign worker quota? If it's solely non-resident, where does the quota apply?
_"Resident employment change contracted....seasonal decline in F&B and retail"_
Who are the seasonal workers? Are they seasonal workers by choice or by circumstances?
In general, there seems to be a mismatch between our domestic labour demand and the profile of our worker population. We do in general have a high literacy workforce, and our labour issues are not just unemployment but also underemployment which is not measured at all. Perhaps we can seek not just to reduce unemployment numbers, since anybody who needs a job will take a job out of necessity, but for our population, to also consider a more systemic approach on better utilization of manpower, whether this channel be created locally or regionally.
28/07/2023, 6:06 pm - +Smiley face: Rice grain?
You use a grain to plant it and harvest it and you take this harvested grain and plant it. This second harvest, you once again take this grain and plant it...the DNA structure of the last harvested rice grain will not be the same; the quality and quantity will never be the same compared to the first harvest...!"
- - anonymity
So India tells the world they may be short of rice; let's think about this growing facts!
Apply to human DNA? Let's look across three generations for illnesses or diseases!
28/07/2023, 6:09 pm - +Smiley face: The foreign workers levy is a contribution (人倴η¨) ?
28/07/2023, 6:22 pm - +Smiley face: A more meaningful and powerful way is to capture our entire population from age 21 to 70 yrs...
Their stations of working experiences which are easily available via the individual CPF history of employment and employers coupled with the latest educational qualifications and add-on to IRAS historical data of all individuals to seive out the areas of potential employability or unemployable or unemployed?
CPF and IRAS and MOM?
28/07/2023, 6:22 pm - +Smiley face: MOE- IHL?
28/07/2023, 6:33 pm - +Rama: Are we learning from them!?
28/07/2023, 6:35 pm - +Smiley face: Don't share with others! Why should they!
28/07/2023, 6:38 pm - +Smiley face: Artic is the frontier and the next spot of conflicts, multi parties!
28/07/2023, 6:45 pm - +REACH: *Dear Contributors,*
⏰ We will be closing the chat in *15 minutes* ⏰
Thank you very much for being part of our WhatsApp chat and participating actively.
Goodnight!
Megan π
28/07/2023, 6:59 pm - +Smiley face: 26 July, 2023
"Accelerating Performances & Pitfalls: Jung & Maslow ways?"
"What is human and what is a group of human with divest backgrounds from literacy to livelihoods?"
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The Tiny-Winnie of things?
The freedom to work independently, a predetermined guidelines befalls on an intra-day or intra month (tactical) to a longer timeline of intra year (strategic). Arguably, the longer a timeline is, the lesser the scope of responsibilities and empowerment to individuals regardless of the size of an organisation.
Why does Empowerment have to precede trust?
For trust to work, you need time and over the course of time either you gain trust or you lose trust or in-between believing your judgments and not so truth worthy.
Patriotic or loyalty, the same goes, building trust and creating empowerment are a larger extension of prior combined experiences what cognitive thinkers would quantify and qualify over a longer period of time for an individual to consider and to adapt to the notion of being loyal or trust worthy.
Civil wars to civil rights, war and peace, the crossroad of patriotism in today's America is perhaps diminishing, what a roller coaster ride; from President Roosevelt radio talks to President Kennedy TV talks, all are high notes of patriotism that captivated millions of Americans and the low point in the 1970s (Vietnam war) and again into the high days of the Clinton's presidency (70% in the 1990s) and now less than a quarter of people cares about the country! (popularity)
From WW2 until the early 1970s, labor productivity grew at over 3% a year, more than doubling over the period, ushering in an era of prosperity for most Americans. In the early 1970s productivity growth slowed dramatically, rebounding in the 1990s and only to slow again since the early 2000s. (trajectory of growth & productivity)
On a larger scale, is there a correlation between patriotism and productivity of a nation or loyalty within a company of staff? The same goes, people to people conflicts and unintended consequences like protests or riots or strikes would be minimised too. (positive)
Strategy and leadership, there is a crucial need to define and refine an organisation strategy that fits a leader (strategy before leadership) to enable these broad based and at times big picture initiatives or longer term projects closer to achieving them. (game plan)
Vision can only be imaginary through mental visualisation of the future; a deep scan and a long focal len into both the possibilities and the achievables, that's envision!
So what are the criteria of a leader?
A visionary, a trustee, a power shifter, a motivator, a loyalist, a game planner. Importantly, a leader whose Character is paramount and it must be of the exemplary example to the entire team.
- to be continued - -
28/07/2023, 7:00 pm - +REACH: *Dear Contributors,*
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Megan π
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