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Coffeeshop Chit Chat - We want FTs. SG workers "unproductive"</TD><TD id=msgunetc noWrap align=right>
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Reality check on foreign talent
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Crucial to survival of this company...
THE negative view of foreign talent misses a truism for employers like me which is this:
Singaporeans may have achieved academic meritocracy but professional meritocracy needs a drastic lift.
The foreign staff in my company have contributed invaluable insights into the way we operate.
Previously and for years, when my company's workforce was almost wholly local, we were bereft of such fresh and productive insights.
Foreign staff have improved my company's productivity and added to the wealth of our collective knowledge. Hiring locals can lead to a false sense of professional growth.
For instance, when we had a staff crunch because of stringent quotas on foreign workers, we had to keep the local staff who were prima donnas or largely unproductive.
We gave them pay rises because we could not afford to lose them.
But the salary increases only served to give the less deserving local employees an inflated sense of their professional worth.
It is hard to compete now because the lack of sufficient labour has increased our business costs which is in turn, threatening to price us out of our market.
Foreign employees not only help keep our labour costs competitive, they provide a much-needed reality check on the sense and value of our professionalism.
Casey Lin
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Reality check on foreign talent
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Crucial to survival of this company...
THE negative view of foreign talent misses a truism for employers like me which is this:
Singaporeans may have achieved academic meritocracy but professional meritocracy needs a drastic lift.
The foreign staff in my company have contributed invaluable insights into the way we operate.
Previously and for years, when my company's workforce was almost wholly local, we were bereft of such fresh and productive insights.
Foreign staff have improved my company's productivity and added to the wealth of our collective knowledge. Hiring locals can lead to a false sense of professional growth.
For instance, when we had a staff crunch because of stringent quotas on foreign workers, we had to keep the local staff who were prima donnas or largely unproductive.
We gave them pay rises because we could not afford to lose them.
But the salary increases only served to give the less deserving local employees an inflated sense of their professional worth.
It is hard to compete now because the lack of sufficient labour has increased our business costs which is in turn, threatening to price us out of our market.
Foreign employees not only help keep our labour costs competitive, they provide a much-needed reality check on the sense and value of our professionalism.
Casey Lin
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