About 56.5 hours lost per employee due to technology-related stress

70% of employees said data-overload led to workplace stress.

An average of more than seven working days, or 56.5 hours of production, is lost per employee in local companies due to delayed work and sick leaves stemming from technology-related stress, according to a report by Qilk and Accenture. This is said to equate to $5.1b in lost productivity.

Seven in 10 respondents reported that data overload has contributed to workplace stress, culminating in nearly half or 47% of the local workforce taking at least one day of sick leave.

The report noted that there are two ways in which the data literacy gap manifests in Singapore organisations: the sparse number of employees using data for decision making, and the lack of data skills amongst employees.

Despite nearly all employees (90%) recognising data as an asset, few are using it to inform workplace decision-making. The report showed that only a quarter (26%) believe they’re fully equipped to use data effectively, with more than half (53%) frequently deferring to “gut feeling” rather than data-driven insights in making workplace decisions.

Meanwhile, the lack of employees’ data skills is reflected in the study’s findings, with 40% stating that they are willing to find an alternative method to using data in completing work tasks.

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia