Swee Say: With population ageing, S'pore must become a manpower-lean economy

Singapore

MANPOWER Minister Lim Swee Say says Singapore must become a manpower-lean economy due to its ageing population.

The government is trying to spread the mindset of lean enterprises, industry and services because there is no other way out for Singapore. This is the only way, Mr Lim said on Tuesday.

He was speaking at an event organised by the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA), Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and Marina Bay Sands (MBS). The event was a Learning Journey for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the cleaning sector.

As part of MOM's Lean Enterprise Development (LED) scheme announced last September, Learning Journey is a series…