Workers in Philippines most stressed in South-East Asia, says global poll


MANILA, July 4 (Philippines Daily Inquirer/ANN): Employees worldwide spend 81,396 hours of their lives at work, but those in the Philippines had been found to have the highest stress levels in South-East Asia in 2021.

While workers everywhere, polled by analytics firm Gallup, said life at work is “not well,” those in the Philippines are among the most stressed out in the world.

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