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SBF calls for foreign worker measures to be eased as workload on front-liners piles up

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Front-line workers here say their workload has piled up, contributing to almost a third of them thinking about quitting several times a month.

Front-line workers here say their workload has piled up, contributing to almost a third of them thinking about quitting several times a month.

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SINGAPORE - To meet pent-up demand from the country’s post-pandemic reopening, the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) is hoping the Government will ease foreign worker measures to provide “immediate” relief for businesses starved of labour, especially small and medium-sized enterprises.

This comes as more than half of front-line workers here say their workload has piled up, contributing to almost a third of them thinking about quitting several times a month. These figures from experience management firm Qualtrics were collected from 194 respondents in Singapore from July to September 2022.

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