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A third of mainland Chinese employees find their work hours ‘distressing’, study by insurance giant AXA shows
- However, more than half of those surveyed in mainland China believe their employers provide good support when it comes to mental health
- About a third of respondents in Asia said the stigma around ‘mind health’ conditions had declined since the pandemic began
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Almost a third of workers in mainland China find the hours they work “distressing”, according to a global study of mental health and wellbeing by insurance giant AXA.
At 31 per cent, that was the highest proportion of any country polled, and compared with 23 per cent in Hong Kong and Japan.
However, more than half (56 per cent) of those surveyed in mainland China believe their employers provide good support when it comes to mental health, much higher than the 32 per cent in Hong Kong and 20 per cent in Japan.
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On a global scale, the pandemic has “boosted people’s resilience” and raised awareness of the importance of mental health, though more efforts are needed to promote this across the workplace, according to the findings of the “AXA Study of Mind Health and Wellbeing” released on Tuesday.
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Those who felt supported at work in terms of “mind health”, which refers to emotional, psychological and social wellbeing, were 1.7 times more likely to be happy and twice as likely to “flourish”, the survey found.
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