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Harassed and sleep-deprived: That is how Malaysia’s Healthiest Office by AIA Vitality 2019 survey describes the workforce in Malaysia, after finding out the state of affairs throughout 230 organisations of various sizes and sectors throughout the nation.

The survey, performed yearly, discovered that greater than half of staff undergo from at the least one dimension of work-related stress (51%), whereas the bulk get lower than seven hours of sleep in a 24-hour cycle (53%).

What’s extra, 14% of the 17,595 staff surveyed famous that that they had poor or very poor-quality sleep. On the similar time, 17% of staff reported that they felt drained and fatigued each single day and but 20% of them can not resolve when to take a break.

The survey additionally highlighted that 84% of staff reported at the least a number of musculoskeletal situations (similar to shoulder and neck ache) – a results of lengthy hours on the workplace hunching over computer systems.

Different key findings for Malaysia’s Healthiest Office by AIA Vitality 2019 survey embody:

22% of staff reported that that they had quite a lot of monetary burdens – a contributing issue of underlying psychological well being issues.
20% of staff proceed to be affected by office bullying which total contribute to their stress at work.
A complete of 73.three days per worker are misplaced attributable to absence and presenteeism, costing employer RM1.46 million per 12 months.
16% of staff have low or very low ranges of engagement at work.
32% of staff have a number of persistent situations (kidney situations, hypertension, excessive ldl cholesterol, diabetes, coronary heart illness, stroke or most cancers)
90% of staff don’t eat a balanced food plan.
42% of staff are both obese or overweight.
45% of organisations don’t provide any psychological well being interventions.
98% of staff have an AIA Vitality Age that’s larger than their precise age.

Notice: The AIA Vitality Age signifies how wholesome an individual is relative to their actual age: the physique could also be youthful (more healthy) or older (much less wholesome) than the precise age, relying on the particular person’s well being and life-style.

The survey outcomes had been revealed at AIA’s Malaysia’s Healthiest Office Summit 2019. Commenting on the findings on the occasion, Ben Ng, Chief Govt Officer, AIA, stated: “The survey continues to spotlight the prevalence of melancholy, nervousness, sleep insufficiency, to call a couple of, in our workforce which contributes to low ranges of productiveness in organisations.

“There’s a clear want for employers to first, recognise happier and well-rested workforce is a extra productive one and second, to advertise interventions that don’t simply deal with bodily and dietary well being but additionally psychological wellbeing.”

The winners of the Malaysia’s Healthiest Office by AIA Vitality 2019 Awards had been additionally introduced, the place corporations had been recognised for his or her respective efforts in selling office well being and making a wholesome surroundings for his or her staff.

The winners for every award class are as follows:

1. Malaysia’s Healthiest Staff