According to the Randstad Workmonitor survey for the third quarter of 2017, 90% of Malaysian employees feel that their current job allows them to realise their full potential. This is the joint-highest percentage among all 33 countries surveyed, with Malaysia tying with Greece in this regard.
Malaysian employees also ranked second with regard to staying aligned with developments in their fields. Ninety-six percent of Malaysian workers claimed to do so, a figure only surpassed by India, which registered 97%.
Malaysia also tied for first with India in terms of percentage of workers who had engaged in activities to upskill themselves in relation to work, with 89% doing so.
Malaysian employees were the second most likely to have attended a workshop, seminar or conference to upskill themselves, with 52% having done so.
They also ranked joint-fifth in terms of percentage of workers who had attended a specific training or educational course pertaining to their job. Forty-nine percent of Malaysian employees reported doing this.
Jaya Dass, country director of Randstad Singapore, said in a report in The Straits Times: “Learning and development is a lifelong process and we strongly encourage employees to actively look for interesting opportunities to stay competitive in today’s workforce.”
However, it was not all good news for Malaysian employees.
Job mobility and satisfaction both saw clear decreases, while the desire to change jobs increased. Malaysia was one of 18 countries, including four in Asia, in which job mobility decreased.
The Randstad Workmonitor survey is published quarterly and tracks global trends in job mobility, employee satisfaction and personal motivation, employee confidence, and sentiments and trends in the global job market by interviewing non-self-employed workers between the ages of 18 and 65.