{"id":3466,"date":"2017-07-13T08:45:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T08:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2017-07-13T08:45:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T08:45:03","slug":"research-reveals-the-laziest-people-in-apac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/research-reveals-the-laziest-people-in-apac\/","title":{"rendered":"Research reveals the laziest people in APAC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work, work, work. All we ever seem to do is work. According to the latest research from YouGov, the world\u2019s leading online research firm, this could be because we want to. Nearly three-quarters of netizens in APAC (71%) describe their work ethic as hardworking, with just 13% seeing themselves as lazy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Residents of Hong Kong are more likely to see their work ethic as lazy compared with other APAC respondents, with nearly a quarter (24%) citing their work ethic as lazy. By contrast, Australians are the most likely to see themselves as hardworking among all APAC respondents; four-fifths of respondents (79%) believe that they are hardworking in the workplace.<\/p>\n

Stereotypes about millennials being lazy seem to be confirmed by their own admission; young people are four times more likely to describe their work ethic as lazy. While a fifth (19%) of 16-24 years admit to having a lazy work ethic, just 5% of those over 55 believe themselves to be lazy.<\/p>\n

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A third of APAC residents self-describe as lazy in terms of physical activity<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, when it comes to physical activity the number of those who confess to being lazy soars to 31%. While Hong Kong residents are again more prone to labelling themselves as lazy (44%) than other residents in APAC, this time it is Indonesians who come out with the highest percentage to self-describe as hardworking (70%).<\/p>\n

There also appears to be a gender divide in how men and women see their level of physical activity. Women are more likely to see themselves as lazy, with 36% of those polled seeing themselves as lazy (compared to just 27% of men).<\/p>\n

51% of men would prefer to walk for 1km than drive\/take public transport<\/strong><\/p>\n

Women are also lazier when it comes to how respondents choose to travel a distance of 1km. Asked whether respondents would rather walk or drive\/take public transport to travel the distance, fewer than half of female respondents (44%) would prefer to walk. This compares with 51% of male respondents.<\/p>\n

Responses to this question reveal that residents of Hong Kong are actually far\u00a0less<\/em>\u00a0lazy than their regional counterparts. Despite being the most likely to self-describe as lazy across APAC, those in Hong Kong are the least likely to opt to drive\/take public transport (32%). Instead, those most eager to avoid walking 1km are residents of Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, where 48%, 46% and 45% respectively would prefer to take public transport or drive.
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Most respondents would prefer to take the stairs than elevators\u2026 so long as the ascent is less than five floors<\/strong><\/p>\n

YouGov tested just how lazy netizens are by probing the point at which people would opt to take the elevator over stairs. Although 92% of respondents claim that they would opt for the stairs rather than an elevator to ascend by just one floor, nearly two-thirds of those polled (63%) confess to having taken an elevator to do so in the past.<\/p>\n

Five floors is the cut-off point where most people would rather take the elevator stairs. More than four-fifths of the those polled (83%) would opt for the elevator at this point, nearly double the number that would take the elevator to travel three floors (46%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research reveals millennials are four times more likely to describe their work ethic as lazy than baby boomers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,36,3,35],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness","category-health-wellness-2","category-spotlight","category-wellness-2","tag-health","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zestmag.com\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}