He occasionally worked twenty hours a day answering calls from colleagues and clients in Latin America, Singapore ,Asia, and Europe.
Yeo spent even more time online when COVID-19 forced workers to work from home. Eventually, he became burned out and decided to retire early in 2021 rather than continue in the fast lane.
Currently, Yeo engages in volunteer work with the elderly, experiments with photography, and fulfills his passion for travel by taking trips to Africa and the North Pole to see gorillas.
In Singapore, striving for greatness is instilled in us, and laziness is not an option. We never turn off. Yeo, who is in his 50s, told Al Jazeera, “You have the mindset that you’re serving the corporation but without knowing, you slip into doing too much.”
Yeo is one of a growing number of Singaporeans who are trying to reframe the Singapore Dream so that it is more about finding fulfillment and meaning in life than it is about obtaining material success. Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s prime minister-in-waiting, contends that people in the city-state need to look beyond employment and money.
Wong claimed that people in Singapore “no longer talk so much about the five Cs”—a condo, a car, cash, a credit card, and membership in a country club—after the publication of a report in October that gathered opinions from locals regarding the future of the social compact.
Wong, the deputy prime minister and finance minister, stated, “From our engagements, it is also clear the Singapore Dream is more than just material success,” at the festival’s opening. The festival was based on the results of a 16-month consultation that involved over 200,000 Singaporeans.
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