How engaged are employees in Singapore?

Singapore holds the highest share of remote workers worldwide.

Despite Singapore’s worker engagement increasing last year, employee participation continues to trail behind the global average, according to the latest People at Work 2025 global workforce study by ADP Research.

Singapore saw a 5-percentage-point rise in worker engagement last year. This brings the share of fully engaged employees in the country to 12%, up from 7% in the previous year.

Despite the improvement, Singapore falls behind the global average of 19% and ranks amongst the lowest in the Asia-Pacific region.

In terms of work arrangements, 61% of Singaporean employees reported working on-site daily. 

The country also recorded the highest share of fully remote workers globally at 23%, whilst 16% were in hybrid arrangements. 

However, engagement levels were lowest amongst Singapore’s remote workforce, at just 7%, compared to 14% for on-site and 13% for hybrid workers.

The survey also found that only 23% of Singaporean workers felt they were part of the best team they had ever worked with. 

This is below the Asia-Pacific regional average of 19% and reflects a year-over-year drop of 7.7 percentage points — the largest decline in the region.

Flexibility remains a mixed picture in Singapore. 

Just 27% of workers reported having complete autonomy in choosing their work location, equal to the Asia-Pacific average but trailing regional leaders like India (45%) and the Philippines (43%).

The findings are based on responses from nearly 38,000 workers across 34 markets, collected between July and August 2024.