Hong Kong employees are the least happy among eight Asia-Pacific economies, including Singapore, with only 47 per cent of local workers reporting that they felt happy at work, a leading job recruitment platform has found.

On Friday, Jobsdb released its survey of 1,020 local workers, which also found that 44 per cent of local respondents reported burnout at work and about 66 per cent were dissatisfied with their stress levels.

Hong Kong’s workplace happiness ranked the lowest among the eight markets surveyed, each covering about 1,000 respondents.

Workers in Indonesia and the Philippines were the happiest, with 82 per cent and 77 per cent reporting that they felt happy at work, respectively.

They were followed by Malaysia at 70 per cent, Thailand at 67 per cent, New Zealand at 65 per cent, Australia at 57 per cent, Singapore at 56 per cent and finally Hong Kong.

“In the emerging markets, Indonesia and the Philippines, they generally have a more positive and sanguine view of life, so that explains part of the cultural differences between the gap,” said Bill Lee Chern-hsing, managing director of Jobsdb Hong Kong.