SINGAPORE - One night during the circuit breaker last year, Ms Nur Alfisyah Nonis, 32, told her daughter, seven, to watch her brother, two.
She went to the toilet, locked the door, sat in the bathtub, and bawled. The accounts manager, who was working from home, was so swamped with work that she had buckled when her son threw a tantrum.
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