Nearly half of the nation’s office workers care about or are paying attention to the special municipality elections that will be held on Nov. 27, according to the results of a survey recently released by the 1111 online job bank.
The poll found that 47.7 percent of respondents were following election developments, and of this group, just more than half (50.5 percent) said they were interested because the candidate’s proposals could have an impact on their lives.
Many (46.4 percent) said their interest was based on a concern for state or national affairs, and 19.8 percent said they were drawn by the nonstop media coverage of the campaigns.
The survey found that 18.9 percent of respondents said the elections had affected their work in a number of ways — mostly delaying their work because of time spent talking about the election, watching televised reports of the elections during work hours and arguing about the candidates.
Henry Ho (何啟聖), the job bank’s public relations director, said that only 6.8 percent of respondents said they got into heated arguments with others over the elections.
Meanwhile, 28.4 percent of respondents said their workplace had clear guidelines regarding the elections, with some clearly banning and others explicitly allowing election discussions in the office.
More than a quarter of the respondents said their employers barred open statements of support for candidates other than those that were backed by the company or organization.
Of the 52.3 percent of respondents who said they had no interest in the elections, the vast majority (78.5 percent) said they were not paying attention because they did not want to be affected by “meaningless rhetorical battles.”
The job bank conducted the survey between Oct. 29 and Thursday and received 1,166 valid samples. The poll had a confidence level of 95 percent and a margin of error of plus or minus 2.87 percentage points.
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