工作環境質素指數
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HeadlineJobs.hk is the first interactive intelligent recruitment platform in Hong Kong, co-operating with Sing Tao News Corporation Limited’s Headline Daily and its sister website hkheadline.com. It aims to provide applicants and employers with a brand new recruitment experience. As a neutral recruitment media, HeadlineJobs.hk would like to find out more on employees’ working condition. Thus, HeadlineJobs.hk jointly conducted the HeadlineJobs Quality Workplace Index Survey with Public Opinion Programme of The University of Hong Kong from 2008 in every quarter / half year.

HeadlineJobs Quality Workplace Index Survey focuses on the study of different work aspects among employees. Taken the diversity of interviewees’ background into account, the survey’s five targeted areas include Career Development, Job Nature, Relationship, Recognition, and Compensation. The survey is derived by asking the working population about their job satisfaction on 16 motivators as well as its level of importance. For details, please refer to the illustration beside.

The HeadlineJobs Quality Workplace Index is carried out by HeadlineJobs.hk, successfully interviewed 504 employed persons in September 2012 to study and analyse hot issues like the objectives of retirement investment, work-related expenses, creativity at the workplace and other topics. The study also examined trends related to job satisfaction, job-seeking rates and staff retention. Dr. Robert Ting-yiu Chung, Director of the Public Opinion Programme at The University of Hong Kong observed, “Compared to those registered same time last year, job satisfaction among employees has increased slightly while their job seeking rate has dropped somewhat. Further analysis finds that the job seekers are most dissatisfied with ‘advancement’, ‘benefits’ and ‘professional development’ of current job, while they consider ‘salary’, ‘safe environment’ and ‘co-working relationship’ as important to job satisfaction.”

In addition to these findings, the Index also investigated the portion of employees’ monthly income spent on major work-related expenses. The data show that employees spend 28% of their monthly income on meals, transportation, dressing and other things like entertainment, tele-communications and medical expenses. It is also interesting to note that women spent 31% of their monthly income on work-related expenses, higher than males at 26%. Female spending on dressing was significantly higher than the average figure and male spending. The survey also showed a clear correlation between monthly personal income levels and the percentage spent on work-related expenses. 16% of employees on average spent more than 50% of their income on work-related expenses, 24% of employees who earned less than $10,000 per month spent more than half of their salary on work-related expenses, compared with only 10% and 5% of those whose income levels were between $30,000-$49,000, and $50,000 or higher per month, respectively.

In addition, the high income group ($50,000 or more per month) invested for retirement primarily for life enjoyment purposes and quality medical expenses, a trend which contrasts with other employees who earned less. According to the latest HeadlineJobs Quality Workplace Index, 67% of employees hoped that their retirement investment could cover daily expenses, followed by other aspects such as life enjoyment (60%), property purchase (47%), development of personal interests (40%) and access to quality medical services (36%). “In view of the significant increase in Hong Kong’s aging population expected over the next two decades, issues related to investments for retirement are on the minds of more and more middle aged employees,” says Ms. Fanny Chan, CEO of HeadlineJobs.hk. “Referring to this study, employees should pro-actively plan ahead by taking into consideration their pursuits after retirement, and invest for the future. Solely relying on MPF resources is definitely not sufficient.”

For staff recruitment, many human resources professionals emphasise ‘creativity’ as a way to spur innovation and ultimately improve business results. Among employers, 56% supported the notion that creativity is a critical factor in hiring while 45% of employees considered creativity to be an important aspect in their work. More employees aged below 40 agreed with this. In addition, more top and middle managers as well as professionals regarded creativity as being important compared with general staff personnel.

HeadlineJobs.hk is glad to have Public Opinion Programme of The University of Hong Kong to be the partner of this survey. Together, we work on making this survey as neutral, accurate and inspiring as possible.
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Dr. Robert Ting-Yiu Chung, Director of Public Opinion Programme, The University of Hong Kong (second from left) and a researcher supervised a team of telephone interviewers from the control room, and ensured the standard of survey was being met during the whole process.
HeadlineJobs.hk aimed to make HeadlineJobs.hk Quality Workplace Index as accurate and neutral-sized as possible. We appointed the experienced and sizable team of Public Opinion Programme of The University of Hong Kong to conduct the survey.
Dr. Robert Ting-Yiu Chung, Director of Public Opinion Programme, The University of Hong Kong, expected the survey results would serve as a long-standing reference index that could truly reflect the employee's situations and needs.