Office employees at their work places. ©RIA Novosti
According to the poll conducted by HeadHunter recruitment agency’s research center, 47% of the polled Kazakhstan employees sees themselves as work addicts, Tengrinews.kz reports, citing Interfax-Kazakhstan. “54% of the respondents who consider themselves work addicts are sure that they have to work a lot in order to make their living. 17% of the respondents who consider themselves work addicts believe that they are workaholics because they think about the work regardless of the place where they are physically. 13% of the pollees considered themselves work addicts, because they haven’t been on vacation for more than one year. 6% of those who think they are workaholics are working 24-hour a day,” HeadHunter’s press-release reads. 27% of the respondents who are not work dorks are sure that they can clearly draw the line between work and other aspects of their life. Work is just a means of earnings their living for one quarter of the pollees. 13% said that they don’t overreach themselves and don’t do extra work. Work is at the third place in the top-priority life values rating for Kazakhstan residents with family and personal life at the first and second places. However 12% of the respondents enjoy their professional career more than anything else. And 9% of the pollees were undecided whether work, family or personal life is the most important thing for them. The poll has also showed that 15% of the respondents never work at week-ends. While 17% of pollees spend their week-end at their work places from time to time. “One fifth of the respondents said that they had worked only several week-ends since the beginning of the year,” the HeadHunter’s poll reads. 32% of those who took part in the research, work overtime at least one time a week. 20% of the pollees have stayed after 6 p.m. only several times since the beginning of the year and 7% have never worked overtime after their official working hours. “More than half of the pollees regularly (at least one time a week or even more often) think over their professional challenges when they are off-duty,” the press-release reads. The poll was conducted on July 17-24, 2012 in 14 regional centers of Kazakhstan (largest cities) and also in the cities of Almaty and Astana. 4981 employed respondents took part in the poll.
According to the poll conducted by HeadHunter recruitment agency’s research center, 47% of the polled Kazakhstan employees sees themselves as work addicts, Tengrinews.kz reports, citing Interfax-Kazakhstan.
“54% of the respondents who consider themselves work addicts are sure that they have to work a lot in order to make their living. 17% of the respondents who consider themselves work addicts believe that they are workaholics because they think about the work regardless of the place where they are physically. 13% of the pollees considered themselves work addicts, because they haven’t been on vacation for more than one year. 6% of those who think they are workaholics are working 24-hour a day,” HeadHunter’s press-release reads.
27% of the respondents who are not work dorks are sure that they can clearly draw the line between work and other aspects of their life. Work is just a means of earnings their living for one quarter of the pollees. 13% said that they don’t overreach themselves and don’t do extra work.
Work is at the third place in the top-priority life values rating for Kazakhstan residents with family and personal life at the first and second places. However 12% of the respondents enjoy their professional career more than anything else. And 9% of the pollees were undecided whether work, family or personal life is the most important thing for them.
The poll has also showed that 15% of the respondents never work at week-ends. While 17% of pollees spend their week-end at their work places from time to time. “One fifth of the respondents said that they had worked only several week-ends since the beginning of the year,” the HeadHunter’s poll reads.
32% of those who took part in the research, work overtime at least one time a week. 20% of the pollees have stayed after 6 p.m. only several times since the beginning of the year and 7% have never worked overtime after their official working hours. “More than half of the pollees regularly (at least one time a week or even more often) think over their professional challenges when they are off-duty,” the press-release reads.
The poll was conducted on July 17-24, 2012 in 14 regional centers of Kazakhstan (largest cities) and also in the cities of Almaty and Astana. 4981 employed respondents took part in the poll.