Kristie Neo
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first heard Aug 2025
last heard 7 May
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you know, maybe for some of the giga projects, because you do need a lot of manpower to be able to build some of these things, they would probably hire cheap labor.
So yeah, it is definitely possible.
But I think in terms of like protectionist labor,
labor practices, yeah.
I I'm pretty sure they would try to, you know, ensure that, you know, a certain number of locals would have to be hired.
And in fact not just hired, I do think that they will probably want to introduce a certain level of training even for their own local workers, right?
Um i I mean I I can't speak for again construction, but I can I know for say the finance industry or um
like the private equ equity industry.
Um, there's always this element of hiring, you know, somebody for training purposes so that they can train their own local talent, whether to set up their own funds or, you know, climb up the ladder.
I mean of course
I mean that there are different frictions that and tensions that come about.
Um there's definitely uh an element of trading um that they try to, you know, upskilling that that I think is also emphasized uh for some of these markets.
Well, I mean, if you talk to a couple of the funds that have been here, especially uh and this this is, you know, happens in some of the bigger funds, you do h have what they call like nipple hires, right?
So so these are like the sons of ministers or the sons of family officers who have been parachuted into some of these companies because his father was like the chairman of I don't know
some some family office or something.
You know, it's not like the sense of merit may not necessarily be as well practised here compared to
You know, maybe a more equitable society like Singapore where everybody goes through the same system.
Um, so certain hiring practices can be a little bit different in the Middle East.
And that's sometimes is what kind of leads to some of these types of frictions in a workplace.
Yeah.
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