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Productivity -KOO compares with NZ woh!

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Koo talks about individual vs system productivity woh!
He says in Spore at Subway branch in Jurong East- the wait time for the queue was shorter because there was a team of "singaporean:"... an employees woh( must check really all singaporeans or not )
But when he bought a subway chicken sandwich in NZ there was only one employee and he had to wait a long time for his sandwich woh!
He says that he thinks the NZ guy gets higher pay than the singaporeans in subway singapore But according to him, the Singapore worker productivity is higher woh!
" So the question he ask is "why is the Singapore Subway worker with higher productivity doing the same thing not getting more pay??"" what a stupid question to start with!
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JUST LOOK AT ALL THE BLOODY FLAWS IN HIS THINKING!
1) first to compare NZ with Singapore itself is silly
2) he does take in """"""rental costs""""" of the outlet
3) he does realise that in NZ people have the time and manners to wait for their sandwich
4) he doesn't understand that productivity is not measured only by how fast Prof Koo " from Singapore gets his sandwich in NZ!
5) NZ crowd pull is different from Singapore
6) and to start with he already said there wer emore people manning th esub way branch in Jurong East and mor epoeple of course things get done faster...it is no indication of being more productive too.
what a silly man1- can be Professor some more! wonde rwho gives the professorship...real academia or the system!


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Do not understand lah

Lets say Singapore employees productivity is 3 employees making 8 sandwiches in 5 minutes and 1 NZ employee productivity 5 sandwiches in 5 minutes.

To Mr Koo Singapore is faster because they can churn out 8 sandwiches in 5 minutes so he does not have to wait as long. However from productivity point of view (output per hour), NZ worker is more productive.

I think he is comparing output/hour of NZ store vs output/hour of Singapore store without looking at workers in each store. Probably how Singapore measures it productivity. They compare Singapore output/hr vs HK output/hr vs US output/hour. So to improve Singapore's total output/hr they just jam in more cheap workers.

They can mow the entire lawn at Padang in 10 minutes if they got 1K NSmen, each armed with a sissors. Probably cheaper too - lets see $420/month NS pay = $14/day at 10 hours = $1.4/hour or 23cents per person for 10 minutes. 23 cents x 1000 NSmen = $230.00

I think you ask a landscape company they may charge you $250 to mow the lawn. However they will send 1 man with a ridden lawnmower that can cut and bag the grass cuttings and take about 3 hours.

So we are cheaper and faster and thus more productive even though we use 1K NSmen.

Problem with this solution is that the more lawns we need to mow, the more cheap NSmen we need. As you can see, given that we use 1K men, cheap worker cost is very impt.
 
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