Singaporeans have better work-life balance than Hong Kongers: study

Singaporeans take work home less often than Hong Kongers.

A Compass Index survey by Compass Offices found that Singaporeans enjoy more of a work-life balance than employees working in Hong Kong.

Singaporeans take work home less than employees in Hong Kong; they also work shorter hours.

In that same vein, Singapore is far more optimistic about business growth than Hong Kong.

Compass Offices notes that it’s vital that companies in Singapore recognise this in order to best accommodate their employees and their need for a work-life balance.

Like the other countries surveyed in Asia, employees in Singapore also placed their workplace’s convenient access to transportation hubs as the most important workplace perk, rated highest by employees at 60%.

The next most important perk for employees in Singapore was easy access to lunch and food, rated important by almost half of respondents. Unlike Japan, only 14% of respondents in Singapore felt communal areas and hot desking was an important workplace perk.

Singaporean respondents were quite active in traveling abroad at least once a year, with about 33% of respondents taking work trips outside of Singapore.