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Q1a [Q1a] In the past 12 months, have you ever felt that you are overloaded at work? [E.g. Having too much to do, not having enough time to perform required tasks within working hours, given more work than you can handle, or not having enough resources to do the work well.]

  Frequency Percentage
Yes
525
52.4
No
472
47.1

Don’t know / Hard to say
5
0.5
Total
1,002
100.0
Missing
1

Q1b [Q1b] What do you think are the major causes of your work overload? [Do not read out, multiple answers allowed]

 

 Frequency Percentage of responses (Base=635)
 Percentage of responses (Base=522)
My company’s top priority is to maximise profits without regard for employees’ workload, therefore my company takes on more projects and assignments than we can deal with.
204
32.1
39.1
My company has insufficient manpower / is under-staffed.
173
27.2
33.1
This is the culture in my company - everyone is overloaded at work.
60
9.4
11.5
My supervisor allocates work unevenly between my team.
42
6.6
8.0
In order to succeed in my company I need to take on more work to show my commitment.
32
5.0
6.1
We are not able to openly talk about our workload in my company, and therefore cannot express our workload concern to the supervisor.
29
4.6
5.6
Inefficient internal processes in my company.
19
3.0
3.6
Poor economic affecting company structure / policies
15
2.4
2.9
Others (see below)
14
2.2
2.7

Don’t know / Hard to say
47
7.4
9.0
Total
635
100.0
 　

Q2 [Q2] In the past 12 months, have you experienced any of the following situations due to being overloaded at work? (Multiple answers are allowed)

 

 Frequency Percentage of responses (Base=1,135)
 Percentage of responses (Base=525)
I made mistakes that I could have avoided
228
20.1
43.4
I had to postpone deadlines of my work.
213
18.8
40.6
I spent time on activities not related to work to de-stress during office hours e.g. surfing the internet, visiting social network websites.
175
15.4
33.3
It makes me less efficient in the day as I know I will have to work till late.
156
13.7
29.7
I have had to take sick leave because I have been very tired from work.
140
12.3
26.7
My relationship with colleagues has gotten worse.
134
11.8
25.5
None of the above
89
7.8
17.0
Total
1,135
100.0
 　

Q3 [Q3] Would you consider to do or take any of the following actions in order to achieve a better work-life balance? (Multiple answers are allowed)

 

 Frequency Percentage of responses (Base=1,716)
 Percentage of responses (Base=1,001)
Use flexible working options (if available in the company)
353
20.6
35.3
Quit my current job / change job / Consider taking a career break
280
16.3
28.0
Consider moving to other companies where flexible work options are available
203
11.8
20.3
Leave Hong Kong
197
11.5
19.7
Give up a promotion
185
10.8
18.5
Accept a pay cut in exchange for a role with less workload or working hours
154
9.0
15.4
None of the above
337
19.6
33.7

Don’t know / Hard to say
7
0.4
0.7
Total
1,716
100.0
 　

Q4 [Q4] Using a scale of 0-10, how much have YOU achieved in terms of an ideal work-life balance? 0 represents the worst case possible, 10 represents already ideal, and 5 being half-half.

 

 Frequency Percentage
0
6
0.6
1
4
0.4
2
4
0.4
3
29
2.9
4
69
6.9
5
281
28.1
6
158
15.8
7
235
23.5
8
147
14.7
9
23
2.3
10
36
3.6

Don’t know / Hard to say
9
0.9
Total
1,001
100.0
Missing
2