Here are bad habits Singapore employees hate about their bosses

46% of bosses contact employees on leave.

According to JobsCentral, Singapore bosses are found to exhibit work habits and expectations that may affect work-life balance.

In addition, an employee’s relationship with his or her boss can significantly affect work happiness, especially in areas of advancement opportunities and work autonomy.

According to two surveys the group commissioned, three-quarter of Singapore employers believe it is important their employees work over the weekends or after office hours.

In addition, over two-fifths (46%) say they would contact their employees who are on leave. 58 per cent maintain it is important their employees remain contactable, regardless of whether they are on vacation.

“Expecting employees to work beyond normal work hours has become the norm, possibly from cultural issues like equating extra effort to good performance or economic reasons like trying to improve worker productivity. However, highly stressed workers with an unsatisfactory work-life balance are not sustainable in the long term and you can expect to see problems like employee burnout, inefficiencies, and a high turnover rate,” says Michelle Lim, Chief Operating Officer of JobsCentral Group.

“Being in a highly-connected world today means respect for an employee’s personal time can be diminished due to the ease of communication. At the end, it boils down to the degree of invasiveness of one’s personal time – a responsible employee would not mind being contacted for urgent work issues but it’s another matter when the office calls for small things that can clearly wait,” adds Lim.

Other ‘bad’ boss work habits include stretching meetings beyond office hours (23 per cent), emailing employees at wee hours of the morning (20.3 per cent), frequently shortening project deadlines (16.8 per cent), and asking employees to run personal errands (6.3 per cent)

A total of 256 employers and 3,299 employees from all occupational levels and industries participated in the surveys which ran from August to October 2012.

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