From the Business Times:
SINGAPOREANS have long been suspected to be a dissatisfied bunch – and now there are numbers to add to that view.
In Robert Half’s latest survey of finance professionals, Singapore ranks second-lowest worldwide for job satisfaction, with only 53 per cent of local respondents claiming to be satisfied with their job.
Ironically though, their dissatisfaction may stem largely from their uncertainty over being able to keep their job.
Ranked third-lowest worldwide for satisfaction with job security, only 54 per cent of local respondents said they were satisfied with job security in their current position.
Full article here.
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A little red bean with 5 million ants fighting for it, if the ants are not stressed I wonder who will? The only worms who love their job are those who give rhetoric speeches and drawing fat cheques without check and balance. Expect these worms to work until die because they simply love their job (and money). Didn’t someone said he felt richer every time he received his bank or CPF statements?
This survey is done solely on FINANCE professionals. Of course they would feel unhappy now.
What a meaningless survey.
I have to agree 100% with hansolo #2 that this is a totally meaningless survey.
It says a lot about the people who actually went ahead and conducted the survey.
I wonder what is the survey is done on engineering industry?
Job satisfaction? When probably 40% of the population are probably working under the same boss – be it POSB, DBS, Cheers, NTUC…(you get the picture). It’s ALL ABOUT THE MONEY – that’s how they’ve thought it out for you. Satisfaction is theirs! Power in control and all. Survey on, world, it’s just not a “burning issue” with our almighty Govt. Nothing is…tho’ they may be panicking big-time about the Internet right now. But shhhh. Actually, there is one “burning issue”, how to secure more racial balance within the population by having more Chinese as the majority race. Alas, there are more-than-willing Chinese immigrants from China ! Ta men jiang hua yue, yew go da shen, te !! Fork on, surveys, for all the S’pore Govt. care! Besides, our people are scowling all the time to help fend off those foreign naysayers. Ha ha ha ha.
Singaporean society is in danger of slowly decaying from the best thing that it has: the virtue of hardwork. After sacrificing much for the promise of a comfortable material life, we are now becoming merely materialistic and cannot see life beyond a good paycheck every month. Unless we reverse this trend of growing apathy, the Singaporean society our forefathers and we built up and as we know it might be gone in a few decades. Ask yourself sincerely, don’t you feel that the Singaporean mind has changed over the past few years? There is the sense that hardwork is good, not for its own sake but for the sake of money. That money has become the fundamental principle of the Singaporean life, rather than the joy of producing something beneficial for others and working together for the good of society and the nation. While outward appearances may look the same, the underlying motives of working hard are slowly changing.
As symptoms of this growing trend of increasing materialism and apathy, we see the conversion of all sorts of social enterprises into business enterprises: charities, sports, the arts, churches. We see the growth of churches which preach a gospel of prosperity in which people find spiritual justification for their materialism. Thankfully, we still feel outraged when we find out that charities sometimes use their funds for unnecessary items of luxury, or feel a tinge of regret that some of our national sportsmen were not born here and only came to play for us once their talent was identified and nurtured in their previous homeland. The point is not that we are not concerned. The point is these things keep on happening and we are not concerned enough to agitate for change.
We feel powerless to make any changes. There’s a lot of rustling of leaves and noise, but not enough action and civil groups set up to actuate real change. Lots of comments online, but not enough real work done.
And yet there is hope. We are productive people and can make the changes we want to see. As the government has encouraged us to do, we should take more initiative in making our society a better place.
Strange article this is. When the headline claims that Singaporeans are in general dissatisfied with their jobs, closer scrutiny of the article reveals that it is only “finance professionals” that are being surveyed. Hmm…
#Joshua Wong,
we used to work to live a better life. now we work to live and survive or else we die in just a short time.
very very sad in sg now!!
“Ask yourself sincerely, don’t you feel that the Singaporean mind has changed over the past few years? There is the sense that hardwork is good, not for its own sake but for the sake of money.”
Well, if you have one special group of people who are given too much power to monopolize the supply and hence pricing of essential yet important services without robust checks (e.g transportation, utilities, housing, etc) and your hardwork is only worth this much (no minimum wage) with foreigners welcome with open arms to give you a good fight for your hardwork, you better need to be focused on the money part – because pricing can be artificially brought up to recover “costs” or to reflect ‘private market conditions’ which may well include the fat salaries of chosen talented ones which have been elevated to the level of saints.
Let us pray hard as it is not too difficult to see that the working of such equation is most likely going to break down sooner or later (and lets pray that it is much much later) if the critical pressure point is crossed.
aiyoyo
times are bad
man on the street cant get jobs
so not sure if the survey is to the $$$ workers or who is surveyed?
very blur
anyway, since things so expensive here, of course not happy la
ask the elites if they happy or not?
aiyoyo
I’m not sure we want finance professionals (the ones surveyed) to feel very satisfied with their jobs right now, given that we’re in a crisis brought about by financial shenanigans…
I’m sure the folks at AIG who got the bonus are rather satisfied…
We are being teach by our Gov to live by Money alone.
Just Pay and Pay!
No Values at All! See NKF, Ren Ci
Gov never Practise what they preach.
Even GLC go on contract basis! Half of workforce is Disposable!
Can fire you without retrenchment benefit and perm can change to contract according to wish!
Take it or leave that is attitude of Employer ‘s like Gov nowsday!
If this is meaningless to conduct survey in a down time, this is also meaningless to conduct survey in a boom market. So when is the best time ?
It is the fault of singporeans to be too choosy with their jobs, have become too complacent and expecting too much from their jobs!
it always has been the fault of singaporeans alone when anything bad happens.
When does Gov take OwnerShip? No my Fault!
Everythings are citizen Fault!! Do Singaporean want to hear these all the time!!!
I see this coming as I can only say that employers are all kings of the labour force.
Workers need better laws to protect them.
I have to threaten twice to go to CASE to get back my wages owed. Politics reigned its ugliest in our work force and workers all became competitive and ungracious.
Besides the old Japs who wanted to conquer the world during WW2, Singaporeans may have score the next hoghest for having a bad heart in treating their co workers.
Many people I knew suffered from bad office politics but didnt quit due to circumstances.
Some also turned depressed because they were poorly treated at work by both bosses and co workers.
I am fortunate to have license to stay and work abroad but hope that people here will speak up or do something together to speak up for their causes.
Joshua:
When the leaders of your country value everything with money, and only money, well… what’d you expect?
Hard work for the virtue of hard work? For some people, even hard work is not enough to get fed sufficiently.
The solution lies in the hand of Sinkaporean. You had elected a theiving party who helped themself to the wealth of the nation without any consultation with the people. They treat the wealth of the nation as their own. use your vote wisely the next time. God Bless.