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Covid-19 lockdown: Malaysians with pay cuts struggled more than jobless to pay bills, survey found
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Publish date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020, 06:57 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, June 14 — During the movement control order (MCO), many businesses were affected when the country came to a halt almost overnight.
In the most extreme of cases, businesses closed and people lost their job. Then there are those who had to take pay cuts.
Of the latter, a Think City survey found that they struggled to pay bills and rents more than those who did not have jobs.
Just above half of the survey’s respondents said they faced difficulties paying rent while another 43 per cent said they struggled to pay utility bills.
Only 29 per cent among the jobless made such complaints.
The finding was similar across the self-employed with reduced earnings. Fifty-two per cent of respondents expressed difficulties paying rent while another 45 per cent had to scrape together money for utility bills.
Stress levels between them and those lucky to still have jobs with retained salaries were even more glaring. Just a fifth complained about paying rent or bills.
The survey, titled “You ok or not during MCO?”, didn’t explain the reasons for the difference in stress levels between the unemployed and those who took pay cuts.
So it begs the question as to why those with jobs felt the pinch more than those who don’t.
An explanation, if one is to speculate, could be lifestyle changes.
Decreased pay means you have less disposable income to sustain a certain level of lifestyle, which could intensify the perception of effort.
Meanwhile those without jobs may have adapted to minimal spending and have fewer financial obligations.
The stress levels were also different across sectors, reflecting the varying degree of Covid-19 impact on the economy.
Workers in sectors like sales, arts and entertainment, and architecture and engineering struggled more to pay their rents or mortgage and bills than those in highly specialised fields like healthcare or computers and mathematics.
The survey, which sought to find out if people coped well under the partial lockdown, polled 2,240 respondents. It ran from May 15 to May 23.
Matt Benson, a programme director for Think City and the survey’s creator, said the survey was meant to gather baseline data on how Malaysians fared under restrictions.
Responses were measured according to gender and wealth so disparities in stress levels could be identified.
The survey found most people remained happy and relaxed during the MCO by spending time with family/friends (57 per cent), attending to hobbies (53 per cent), and being entertained online (43 per cent).
But nearly a quarter of people (23 per cent) felt less motivated, while a small proportion (14 per cent) felt super-motivated.
“While there were certainly some people who struggled with the basics like paying bills, the majority felt more connected to the rest of humanity, had improved relationships with their family and took the time to reflect spiritually,” Benson said.
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Justice for Third World: Loss of lives, Economy Sacrifice Or Trial Prescription of OPV?
What should have been done back in January 2020? What might have given the public the children's immunity and safety advantages from Covid-19 threat, yet widely available, generally acceptable and exceptionally affordable?
2020-06-14 22:02
You are too young to feel the sin of inactivity of the ones woth authority.....
......and appreciate the manipulative power of giant pharmas to hold back effective approach......when they are pushing their backdoor agenda
Wake up!
2020-06-14 22:12
This is something serious.....it's about protecting your beloved ones.....
......saving many ailing businesses speciically and national economy generally
We are talking about ppl losing their jobs.....and increasing crime rate soon
NOT spam job. Please wake up ......and say no to giant pharmas' manipulation and exploitation
2020-06-14 22:15
again with the another conspiracy theory...if really effective, ask the healtcare , give the OPV to the healthy the adults , after that put them to the Covid 19 exposure, see got result....
talk easy, we always want ppl to with authority to do something, if something goes wrong, that person with authority will always be blamed.....
let those professional / healthcares do their jobs, no need to burden them with nonsense conspiracy theory
EP, if you want to be hero, why not you go take the OPV, after that go Sg.Buloh Hospital to ask for Covid 19 exposure....
after you taken OPV & exposed yourself to Covid 19 & still standing safe, we talk again ok? that time ppl will sing song praise your boldness to proof to the world your conspiracy theory got validity.
2020-06-14 22:20
Someone somewhere lose his life or job may sound like an old uncle's comedian joke to you......
Wake up.....what's there to lose by opv-ing everyone back then
2020-06-14 22:21
my view simple only, this cycle of illness have been repeating from time over time. Just a matter of different generations.
It happens for certain purposes, after it has serve the purpose, it will disappear on its own.
2020-06-14 22:26
biologically, it will weed off the weak & only the strongest will survive . This is part of the evolution.
2020-06-14 22:27
Man upset the ecosystem.....intruded into animal habitat.....this is a zoonotic infection...
....jump from animal to human....
2020-06-14 22:29
Must see from the moral point of view too.....we must protect the environment
2020-06-14 22:30
Many strong and healthy young ppl and professionals subcumbed to this infection......
.....not only the weak, diabetics or old ppl
2020-06-14 22:31
has the covid 19 not done it part to clean the mother earth by putting everthing into halt?
2020-06-14 22:31
There is a serious justice issue as well....
......for the third world
2020-06-14 22:32
Posted by schadenfreude > Jun 14, 2020 10:31 PM | Report Abuse
has the covid 19 not done it part to clean the mother earth by putting everthing into halt?
________
Not through lockdown of everything including parliament
No sustainable......Need quality education, public awareness and law enforcement
2020-06-14 22:39
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if the survey was conducted on the gloves investors & punters during the same period, I think almost 100% respondents will be happy.
2020-06-14 22:00