Dr Tan Hong Ming and Felicia Romli on GovTech layoffs

The Singapore government's tech arm, GovTech, is planning to trim up to 9 per cent of its 3,900 workforce. For a start, it will let go of 93 staff in what it calls a phased transformation. Dr Tan Hong Ming from NUS Business School and Felicia Romli from HR consultancy Robert Walters Singapore discuss whether "iron rice bowl" public sector jobs are changing with the times.