{"id":321820,"date":"2026-02-28T13:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T13:02:21","slug":"47-of-hong-kong-employees-happy-at-work-lowest-among-8-asia-pacific-economies-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/321820\/","title":{"rendered":"47% of Hong Kong employees happy at work, lowest among 8 Asia-Pacific economies: survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Less than half of Hong Kong employees feel happy at work, a survey has found, ranking the city\u2019s workplace happiness the lowest among eight Asia-Pacific economies, including Singapore.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Recruitment platform Jobsdb on Friday released its survey of 1,020 local workers. The poll also found that 44 per cent of local respondents reported burnout at work and that about 66 per cent were dissatisfied with their stress levels.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong\u2019s workplace happiness ranked the lowest among the eight markets surveyed, each covering about 1,000 respondents.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Workers in Indonesia and the Philippines were the happiest, with 82 per cent and 77 per cent reporting that they felt happy at work, respectively.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They were followed by Malaysia at 70 per cent, Thailand at 67 per cent, New Zealand at 65 per cent, Australia at 57 per cent, Singapore at 56 per cent and finally Hong Kong at 47 per cent.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIn the emerging markets, Indonesia and the Philippines, they generally have a more positive and sanguine view of life, so that explains part of the cultural differences between the gap,\u201d said Bill Lee Chern-hsing, managing director of Jobsdb Hong Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than half of Hong Kong employees feel happy at work, a survey has found, ranking the city\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[986,21390,72,113,88244,240,61,1665,60,149607,13935,1261,1666,149605,9458,435,149608,1667,149606],"class_list":{"0":"post-321820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-burnout","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-happy","13":"tag-hong-kong","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-indonesia","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-jobsdb","18":"tag-malaysia","19":"tag-new-zealand","20":"tag-philippines","21":"tag-salary-increases","22":"tag-singapore","23":"tag-stress","24":"tag-stress-levels","25":"tag-thailand","26":"tag-workplace-happiness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}