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RESEARCH, ANALYSIS & TRENDS

work-life balance for office workers across Asia Pacific. Money is not the only consideration – 94% of
62% of APAC office workers surveyed were based in respondents would continue to work even if they won a
major metropolitan cities, with populations of more than lottery, and nearly 60% would continue in the same job.
5 million. These respondents cited crowded public 35% of those surveyed would use the lottery money to
transport and long travel times for short distances as pursue their dream career, and only 6% would stop
their biggest pain points from working in a big city. work entirely.

In SEA, almost two-thirds of the office workers rated Why work? – Supporting their lifestyle choices and
infrastructural facilities, lifestyle choices and the wide families were the top two APAC contributors to the
availability of jobs as top reasons for choosing to live in overall motivation to work. Respondents in SEA shared
major cities. They picked the ability to work across all similar sentiments and ranked supporting their family
their devices, 24x7 availability, the ability to collaborate as the top motivating factor to work, followed by
with their team, as the most important ways by which fulfilling their lifestyle needs.
technology accelerates their productivity.
Motivations to work at current organization –
"SEA is at the heartbeat of rapid economic evolution Following salary (54%) and perks (43%), the ability to
and great growth opportunities, with digital technology advance was the next highest ranked motivating factor
being one of the biggest drivers. As tremendous (30%) across office workers in SEA working in their
opportunities arise in major cities, technology becomes current roles. Access to education and training, as well
key to helping workers advance in their careers while as regular communication from senior leaders, were
overcoming the challenges of widespread urbanization," rated as important by 21% respondents.
said Srivatsan.
Communication is key – 49% of respondents rated
Millennials drive innovation technology for communicating with colleagues as the
top factor in creating the ideal workspace. This was
While technology spearheads innovation at workplaces, followed closely by access to state-of the-art
young workers are also driving positive transformation technology at work (46%), and access to food and
across organizations. SEA respondents stated that beverages (34%).
propagating social media use and engagement,
sparking creative thinking and innovative projects, and "Historically, work has been about trading labor for
creating diverse and open-minded environments, are income. As value is migrating to capital, to assets, to
top ways younger workers are driving change. technology, we need to think differently about what
work is. Increasingly, work needs to also be about how

"Millennials have become a workforce to be reckoned we choose to spend our time, and how we derive
with, and they are changing workplaces across SEA. meaning from that," said Su-Yen Wong, Chairman,
These discerning new age workers are leading the Nera Telecommunications – who was also one of the
charge in terms of innovation, and also driving initiatives panellists at the recent Adobe APAC Think Tank: The
like diversity and how technology is used at work," Future of Work.
added Srivatsan.
By MediaBUZZ
Other key findings from SEA in "The Future of Work:
APAC Study" include:

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