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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  

Published Thu, Sep 26, 2024 · 06:00 PM
    • For all the talk about prioritising workers’ well-being, the situation seems pretty dire.
    • For all the talk about prioritising workers’ well-being, the situation seems pretty dire. PHOTO: PEXELS

    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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