Despite the news that work-life balance satisfaction has barely changed over the last 10 years in Hong Kong, 61.8% of employees in Hong Kong perceive the balance as getting worse, according to research carried out by Community Business. The finding formed a considerable proportion of workers with only 14.4% saying it was getting better and 19.4% saying it has unchanged.
Breaking down the figures at a press conference in Causeway Bay, Fern Ngai, Chief Executive Officer, Community Business was upfront about the issues that workers face. “What we hear from organisations is that there has been a lot of pressure within the macro business environment—many companies have faced restructuring and layoffs and this has respectfully put pressure on individuals.”
It comes off the back of additional findings that, despite a push by the Hong Kong government to encourage employers to implement a five day working week, only half of companies are actually adopting this practice. Despite implementing this change within the Civil Service, the survey came out with the surprising finding that still 60% of public sector sees work-life balance as deteriorating.
Non-government organisations and charities in Hong Kong are seemingly the most pessimistic with almost 71% seeing the balance deteriorating and scoring the lowest work-life balance satisfaction score of 5.87.
Paul Arkwright
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