this is what is known as a miserable city in a miserable cuntry. gpgt. nuff said.
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Is miserable the same as having the unhappiest workers
Survey after survey has consistently placed Spore as having one of the unhappiest work force.
In a 2016 survey Spore workers were found to be the unhappiest in SE Asia.
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-workers-unhappiest-southeast-asia-survey
Singapore workers unhappiest in South-east Asia: Survey
By Alfred Chua Mingfeng
Published 6:53 PM, September 29, 2016
Updated 11:17 AM, September 30, 2016
SINGAPORE — Workers in Singapore are an unhappy and pessimistic lot.
The Republic has ranked the lowest in job happiness, and workers here are the most pessimistic about their jobs, according to a survey conducted across seven Asian nations.
Furthermore, ratings for job optimism among Singapore workers is expected to drop further in the coming six months.
Among the respondents from Singapore, fresh graduates were found to be the happiest employees in the Singapore workforce, scoring a 5.3 on a 10-point scale.
C-suites — or corporate senior executives — on the other hand, were the most miserable scoring the lowest, at an average of 4.4.
The survey also found that those working in the sciences, hotels and restaurants as well as admin/human resources sectors are found to be the happiest.
Administered by online jobs portal JobStreet.com, the survey was conducted in June this year with a total of 67,764 participants from seven countries – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and Hong Kong. There were 3,398 respondents from Singapore.
The Republic scored an average of 5.09 on a 10-point scale for the Job Happiness Index, which measures how happy and satisfied respondents are and will be with their jobs.
The Philippines was first, followed by Indonesia in second, and Thailand in third. Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Malaysia take the fourth, fifth, sixth places respectively.
Respondents ranged from fresh graduates to those in supervisory and managerial positions and top management, and representing various specialisations and industries, said JobStreet.com.
According to the survey, convenient work location, having good colleagues and company reputation are three key factors that affect job happiness.
A lack of training and career development and poor leadership were flagged by respondents here as causes of job unhappiness.
To increase job happiness, Singapore respondents felt that getting a new job (30 per cent), a higher salary (19 per cent), or receiving recognition from the company (9 per cent) would help in increase their job happiness.
The survey also flagged a trend of falling job optimism in the next six months here, with scores dipping 3 per cent to hit 4.93 on a 10-point scale.
On the issue of declining job optimism, the jobs portal recommended employers to “address the factors causing employee dissatisfaction”.
“Good leadership can be manifested by keeping employees informed on company directions, strategies and even challenges that the company may be facing particularly during an economy slowdown like currently,” said Ms Chook Yuh Yng, country manager of JobStreet.com Singapore.
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https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/20...-world-falling-four-spots-from-previous-year/
Singapore ranked 26th happiest country in the world, falling four spots from previous year
Singapore has been ranked 26th out of 155 countries in the 2017 World Happiness Report, falling four spots from its 2016 position.
According to the report, the country had also dropped in its overall happiness score by 0.068 points to 6.572.
However, it remains the happiest country across Asia based on the report's rating.
The survey was published by the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Solutions Network which stated that its analysis of the levels, changes, and determinants of happiness among and within nations continued to be based chiefly on individual life evaluations, roughly 1,000 per year in each of more than 150 countries.
The report gives special attention to the social foundations of happiness for individuals and nations. Chapter 2 of the report (“The Social Foundations of World Happiness”) starts with global and regional charts showing the distribution of answers, from roughly 3000 respondents in each of more than 150 countries, to a question asking them to evaluate their current lives on a ladder where 0 represents the worst possible life and ten the best possible.
The scale was measured by answers to the Cantril ladder question, "Please imagine a ladder, with steps numbered from 0 at the bottom to 10 at the top. The top of the ladder represents the best possible life for you and the bottom of the ladder represents the worst possible life for you. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you stand at this time?"
When the global population is split into ten geographic regions, the resulting distributions vary greatly in both shape and average values. Average levels of happiness also differ across regions and countries. A difference of four points in average life evaluations, on a scale that runs from 0 to 10, separates the ten happiest countries from the ten unhappiest countries.
Scandinavian countries take the top three spots, with Norway as the happiest country in the world, Denmark ranked second, and Iceland in third place.
Switzerland, Finland, and the Netherlands rank fourth, fifth, and eighth respectively, while Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden round up the top ten.
In Asia, Thailand ranks 32nd, with Taiwan 33rd, Malaysia 42nd, and Japan 51st.
The United States is in 14th place, falling one spot from the previous year.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, told Reuters that Trump’s policies were all aimed at increasing inequality, including tax cuts at the top, throwing people off the healthcare rolls, and cutting Meals on Wheels in order to raise military spending.
"I think everything that has been proposed goes in the wrong direction," he told the media.
He also added
that happy countries are the ones that have a healthy balance of prosperity, as conventionally measured, and social capital, meaning a high degree of trust in a society, low inequality and confidence in government.
