Companies in Singapore are finding it tough to fill vacancies, whether for highly-skilled roles in the tech sector or labour intensive jobs that fewer locals are keen to do.
Behind this manpower crunch - which some say is holding back business growth plans - are a greying population and tight foreign labour policies, as well as a mismatch between jobs in demand and the skills needed to fill them.
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