Local SME
Honestly SMEs have one of the most toxic environment. Especially so when it’s a family run business. SOPs are all over the place, dated, or non existent, and you 1 person, is expected to take on 1000x other responsibilities that they’re too cheapskate to hire actual people for. Yet, they have budget to hire c suite executives with fat pay checks doing nothing, and totally unaware of what’s happening on the ground.
Welfare benefits are non existent, no medical benefit, aws nor vb. Salary is nett and barely on par with market rate. Employees are burnt out, underpaid and undervalued. Clowns running a circus, lining their fat pockets on expense of employees.
Can’t wait to leave once I secure a new job.
Here are what netizens think:
- small business owner, would rather spend the time doing the business than mapping out, documenting and training business processes. Many don’t have the extra overheads for these trainings. On the bright side, you are not stuck with a process, you are free to design your own, as long as it makes sense, legal, etc. Many like working in SME for this reasons, but it’s not for everyone.
Go mnc. There are benefits. Still toxic, but there are benefits. (90% of work culture in sg is toxic. I’ve been in both).
- Make use of this place as a training ground for better upskill line.
- Worked for SMEs and MNCs. Pro and cons for both, depending largely on the company culture. MNCs tend to have a lot of red tape all over the place while SME has no resources to do anything. LOL
- I agree with the low benefits, but I don’t agree with undervalued. I thought one perk of SME is that your talent will be noticed easily
- Unfortunately, SMEs hardly see the need to hire a C&B Manager who can propose and implement better Total Rewards to motivate and recognize employees for their contributions. Payroll is their priority.