Sentiments: work setup
Designers are overwhelmingly comfortable with their current working arrangement. Hybrid and remote models, once adopted, have become a stable part of the design work experience.
Sentiments: work setup
Work arrangement comfort
Designers rate their current working arrangement 5.57 out of 7 on average, the highest sentiment score across all categories, and 31.6% gave the maximum rating. Hybrid and remote models, once adopted, have settled into a stable, well-liked part of the design work experience.
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Comfort with current working arrangement
Distribution of responses to the current working-arrangement comfort statement (N=323) on a 1–7 Likert scale, where 1 - Strongly disagree and 7 = Strongly agree.
Responses on the 1-7 Likert scale cluster at 5-7, with 6 and 7 the most common ratings; 1 - Strongly disagree and 7 - Strongly agree.
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| Rating | Respondents | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 - Strongly disagree | 5 | 1.5 |
| 2 - Disagree | 10 | 3.1 |
| 3 - Somewhat disagree | 16 | 5.0 |
| 4 - Neutral | 32 | 9.9 |
| 5 - Somewhat agree | 60 | 18.6 |
| 6 - Agree | 92 | 28.5 |
| 7 - Strongly agree | 102 | 31.6 |
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Extra hours worked
Distribution of extra hours worked outside regular hours (N=311).
No extra hours and 1-2 extra hours are the most common responses, with 3-5 and 5+ trailing.
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| Extra hours | Respondents | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 106 | 32.8 |
| 1-2 | 87 | 26.9 |
| 3-5 | 65 | 20.1 |
| 5+ | 53 | 16.4 |
Distribution of extra hours worked outside regular hours among Singapore respondents (N=217).
Singapore tilts a little more toward 1-2 extra hours.
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| Extra hours | Respondents | Share (%) |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 67 | 29.9 |
| 1-2 | 66 | 29.5 |
| 3-5 | 42 | 18.8 |
| 5+ | 42 | 18.8 |
67.2% of designers work extra hours beyond the standard work week, more than double the share reporting none. This section's data doesn't break the picture down by seniority, but the published report's company-level analysis found that directors and VPs work the longest hours of any seniority band, on average.
Sentiment findings reflect aggregate responses across 10 markets; 69.4% of respondents are Singapore-based.
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