A TRS Reader working in Mediacorp shared with us this email from January of 2013. In the email, the head of IT at Mediacorp was informing all employees of an organisational change about to occur. He promoted the change as a way to strengthen Mediacorp's capabilities.
In reality, this ‘organisational change’ meant that almost the entire SAP application team was axed. About 30% were made redundant on the spot. The rest were given a timeline of 3 to 6 months to perform transition to the new vendor before they completely exit.
It is also concerning that DWC, the new vendor assigned to take over the SAP projects, is a very new company registered only in 2010 worth only SGD 10.
What’s worse is that the head of IT, is a FT. It was his decision to outsource and ‘reorganize’ causing many people to lose their jobs. Will the retrenched Singaporean workers be replaced by ‘cheaper and more efficient’ foreign workers?
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