Bonus blues: Chinese white-collar workers at foreign firms most fearful about annual payout
More than half of 14,478 mainlanders surveyed by Zhaopin.com, a human resources website, are not confident about getting a bonus this year, with those at foreign firms most worried
A new survey of mainland white-collar workers shows that those employed by foreign-funded businesses are more pessimistic about whether they will receive an annual bonus this year compared with those at Chinese firms.
More than half of the 14,478 people responding over the past three weeks to the online survey of Zhaopin.com, a mainland human resources mainland human resources e-recruiting website, said they were not confident about receiving a bonus this year.
Only 15.7 per cent of the white-collar workers surveyed said they were confident about getting a bonus.
The survey found that the average confidence index ranking of staff questioned about annual bonuses was 2.21 – on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 was lowest confidence level and 5 the highest.
This year’s index ranking was higher than the 2.07 recorded over the same three-week period last year, which suggested that businesses had adopted measures to try to motivate their staff during the past 12 months, said Huang Ruoshan, the website’s senior career consultant.
The survey found people working for joint-venture companies were the most optimistic about receiving a bonus, with an average confidence index ranking of 2.60, followed by government employees on 2.41.
White-collar workers employed by mainland privately-run enterprises had an index ranking of 2.38, while those at state-owned companies were on 2.28,
The confidence index of staff at foreign businesses was the lowest of all – with an index ranking of 2.11 – the survey found.