Stressed and overworked: Are Singapore employees condemned to burnout?
Employers must soon fairly consider formal requests for flexi-work, but the punishing local work culture may be the fly in the ointment
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THE statistics are downright awful.
Over the last few years, numerous surveys and studies have confirmed what we always knew – Singapore employees are stressed, overworked, sleep-deprived and burnt out.
Not only do we clock the longest hours a week in the Asia-Pacific (Apac) region, new research shows that nearly a quarter of us are always working past official hours. No wonder we’re the most sleep-deprived and fatigued in the world.
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