Small & Medium Firms Looking At Restructuring Their Business

[footneckle]

Singapore is not a good place for startups or SMEs anymore?

According to the latest SME Development Survey, 51 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore say their main business strategy is to rethink their business model due to rising cost pressures.
Some major challenges faced by SMEs in 2014 are:
difficulty in hiring staff: 49%
high manpower costs: 48%
increasing competition: 45%
high rental costs: 31%
uncertain global economic environment: 23%
high material costs: 19%
difficulty in retaining staff: 17%
http://www.enterpriseone.gov.sg/en/News ... urvey.aspx

[footneckle]

It's getting harder and harder for local companies to hire foreign talents.

http://www.humanresourcesonline.net/loc ... -rises-73/
Local employment rises in Singapore, amid lower productivity

Foreign workforce now makes up 27% of employment gains, compared to 39% last year.

[sundaymorningstaple]

What happened? You just woke up this morning? Real stroke of brilliance, you are. NOT

[Wd40]

It's getting harder and harder for local companies to hire foreign talents.

http://www.humanresourcesonline.net/loc ... -rises-73/
Local employment rises in Singapore, amid lower productivity

Foreign workforce now makes up 27% of employment gains, compared to 39% last year.

Plural of talent is talent.

[zzm9980]

Plural of talent is talent.

Actually, talent can be pluralized either way:

• Wd40 has a lot of talent for things such as sticking his foot in his mouth.
• One of Wd40's many talents is to stick his foot in his mouth.

Irregardless* of colloquial usage, a person is never a talent. Grammar rules don't apply.

*- Yes pun intended.

[sundaymorningstaple]

Plural of talent is talent.

Actually, talent can be pluralized either way:

• Wd40 has a lot of talent for things such as sticking his foot in his mouth.
• One of Wd40's many talents is to stick his foot in his mouth.

Irregardless* of colloquial usage, a person is never a talent. Grammar rules don't apply.

*- Yes pun intended.

Unless you work for MediaCorp. All their actresses & actors are called talents, when in fact they should, for the most part, be called talent-less.

[RoastBeefBaron]

Plural of talent is talent.

Actually, talent can be pluralized either way:

• Wd40 has a lot of talent for things such as sticking his foot in his mouth.
• One of Wd40's many talents is to stick his foot in his mouth.

Irregardless* of colloquial usage, a person is never a talent. Grammar rules don't apply.

*- Yes pun intended.

Unless you work for MediaCorp. All their actresses & actors are called talents, when in fact they should, for the most part, be called talent-less.

Anything is better than the cringe-worthy artiste.