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
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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