Work is an essential part of a person’s life. Having a job helps individuals to support themselves and their household. More than a means to live, working ingrains a sense of purpose for individuals as it work serves as a contribution to society.

However, aside from being employees and staff, people are individuals with unique passions and inclinations who need time to fully develop and pursue endeavors outside their careers. Hence, work-life balance is important to measure to ensure a person’s total wellbeing.

Highlights

  • Around 40% of respondents work regular shifts with 6-8 hours per day.
  • 31% admits to taking weekly overtime or out-of-work hours of working time.
  • Single people work more than spend time on leisure.
  • Almost half (40%) are very satisfied with their work and lifestyle.

Most of the respondents tend to work within normal shifts. This is according to a recent Real Research survey. Those respondents who work 6- 8 hours a day (40.5%) take up almost half of the sampling population. It was followed by those who work 8-10 hours every day (27%) and less than 6 hours a day (26%) at almost the same rate.

However, despite the average 6-8 horse typical work shift, some others work outside working days. When asked the question: “How often do you work overtime or outside regular workday work hours?”—‘Weekly’ tops the answer as the frequency (37%). Very close to those who admit to doing overtime work ‘daily’ (31%).

This is strongly proven by another poll that asked: “How often do you take work home after office hours?”. The result revealed that normal employees tend to extend working at home once a week (30%) to once or twice a week (45.4%). Only a few (11%) of the respondents admit to not taking work home.

Single People Spends More Time Working With Less Leisure Time

With more than half of the respondents are single (61%) employees, it is clear to conclude that work has been the main focus of single employees. Single people almost double the married respondents (39%) who answered this survey.

Also, most of the respondents are in their ‘prime’ stage of their career. Looking at the back end demographics, almost 2000 of the respondents are aged between 29 to 39 — within the bracket of employable age and at the peak of their career.

Figure 3: Respondent Demographics
Figure 3: Respondent Demographics

On a poll aiming to measure the general working public’s allotted time to do leisure activities, unfortunately, survey results show that people spend little time to do things that provide them leisure. The majority of respondents reveals to spend only less than 15 minutes (34%) or 15 minutes to 1 hour per day (28%) for leisure activities.

This means respondents might attend to the household or other social engagements — including community, church, or organization affairs — that they don’t consider as leisure time at all.

Ranked third, some respondents admit to not having time (25%) for leisure-focused activities within the day. In conclusion, people though spend adequate time at work and can go home on time; they are not able to have enough leisure time.

Most Believe to Achieve Work-Life Balance

Despite having less time to do leisure activities, data showed that respondents spend an acceptable and reasonable amount of time at work. When asked to express their agreement to the statement: “ I have enough time when I get home to relieve pressure from my workday.” — more than half answered they ‘strongly agree’ (50%).

Meanwhile, those who said ‘agree’ (38%) closely follows, with only less than 300 respondents behind. On a direct-questioned poll wanting to rate the work-life balance satisfaction, most said ‘Very Satisfied’ (40%). Those who claimed to be ‘Extremely Satisfied” (29%) and Somewhat Satisfied (25%) take the majority, leaving only a small percentage of respondents who are not satisfied (7%).

On final notes, respondents appeared optimistic about their lifestyle that considers the aspect of work, rest, and leisure. Despite missing family or personal events (70%) due to work and work stress causing sleepless nights (47%), people still believe that they have attained the right equilibrium that factors in work and life as a whole.

Methodology

Real Research conducted the survey “Work-Life Balance Survey” fielded to respondents of both genders part of the working class of all ages who reside in 40 countries including the United States, South Korea, India, China, and Vietnam.

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