{"id":41364,"date":"2019-11-15T17:45:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=41364"},"modified":"2019-11-15T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T11:04:56","slug":"aia-malaysians-work-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/aia-malaysians-work-stress","title":{"rendered":"AIA Study Shows Half Of Malaysians Suffer From Work Related Stress"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mental health in the workplace has been getting more attention lately, and an AIA mental health study has added more information.<\/p>\n
AIA Vitality’s Malaysia’s Healthiest Workplace survey found that employees are both overworked and lacking sleep. Some 51% of the respondents claimed to be suffering from at least one form of work-related stress. A further 53% said that they were getting less than seven hours of sleep per night.<\/p>\n
Financial problems weighed the heaviest on the minds of respondents, with 22% saying that money-related problems had an adverse effect on their mental state. The press release did not go into detail as to whether these concerns contributed to the lack of sleep.<\/p>\n
Additionally, 20% of people said that they suffered from workplace bullying.<\/p>\n
Having a desk job was also found to be detrimental to a person’s well-being. Some 84% said that they suffered from some sort of musculoskeletal condition.<\/p>\n
Despite these problems at work, Malaysian workers do not seem to be able to turn off. One in five respondents had no idea on when to take a break and 17% said that they felt tired and fatigued every single day.<\/p>\n
Health issues, whether mental or physical, cost Malaysian businesses RM1.45 million per year. This is a combination of absenteeism and the practice of coming to work while unwell. This translates into 73.3 days of lost work each year.<\/p>\n
AIA’s commissioned survey covered\u00a0 230 organisations with a combined workforce of 17,595 employees. The goal was to determine the healthiest workplace in the country, and gauge the overall well-being of the workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just showing up to work while sick could have adverse effects on the office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":41367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,216],"tags":[435,363,487],"class_list":["post-41364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insurance","category-news-updates","tag-aia","tag-insurance","tag-mental-health"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n