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Thought Leader. As*an Recruitment Specialist. Long-Term Partnerships.  As our working lives in APAC continue to evolve, we invite you to participate in our 2019 Working in Asia Pacific survey. Building on the success of our previous annual surveys with the Roffey Park Institute, this year we have joined forces with The Next Step to expand our research to include Australia. Our research aims to enable you to thrive in this ever-changing environment, covering topical questions around leadership, diversity, mental health and artificial intelligence, amongst others. For each fully completed survey, we will make a donation to a mental health charity to help foster improved mental wellbeing in workplaces and our workforce. To support this cause and complete the survey, please click here. Click here to take the survey. All responses will be strictly confidential. Respondents will be given a complimentary copy of the final report in mid-2019. Thank you for your participation and we look forward to sharing the This article first appeared in the December 2018 edition of Human Resources, the official journal of the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management. ​ With Hong Kong's workforce showing high levels of depression and anxiety – 2.5 times above the global average, the city's frenetic work culture is a key culprit, impacting both the mental well-being of workers and their productivity. In spite of support groups calling for greater awareness to help sufferers, a competitive culture, strong stigma and a lack of understanding among employers mean that mental health issues are largely overlooked in Hong Kong. Mental health is a sensitive topic globally and particularly so across many cultures in Asia. There are often taboos as*ociated with openly mentioning the topic of mental health, which in turn leads to the lack of discussion and initiatives around mental well-being in the workplace. In Hong Kong, a quarter of the workforce show levels of depression and anxiety – 2.5 times above the global average – according to a 2015 survey jointly conducted by the Hong