SEVENTY per cent of Australians believe employees become stale if they stay in the same job for 10 years. According to 29 per cent of the 720 respondents, employees need to move jobs every two years to avoid stagnation
SEVENTY per cent of Australians believe employees become stale if they stay in the same job for 10 years. According to 29 per cent of the 720 respondents, employees need to move jobs every two years to avoid stagnation. The most popular employee retention initiatives were:
New challenges 81%
Training 8%
More money 6%
The survey also found 70 per cent of Generation Y said they needed new challenges to keep their job fresh, along with further training (14 per cent).
Source: Talent2
Is loyalty dead?
NINETY per cent of Australian workers consider themselves loyal to their employer; however, the same percentage of employees would still want to know about a new job opportunity, even if they weren’t actively looking. A survey of 726 people found 46 per cent of Australians would leave their company in an instant for a substantial salary increase elsewhere, even though they’re completely happy in their job, while 32 per cent would switch if they found a company where their skills would be put to good use and 11 per cent would move for more flexible working hours.
Source: Linkme.com.au
Men still on top
EIGHTY per cent of women believe they are still being passed over for executive jobs simply because of their gender, according to a poll of 200 employees. It also found that only 15 per cent of women believe their gender has no bearing on their job opportunities and only 5 per cent of women believe that the tables have turned with women being the more favourable sex.
Source: Heat Group
Finance and accounting in demand
TWENTY-SIX per cent of Australian finance and HR managers plan to expand their finance and accounting teams over the next six months. The reasons for increased staffing demands included higher workloads (32 per cent), staffing issues/attrition/turnover (14 per cent), business change (13 per cent) and changes in government regulations (9 per cent).
Source: Robert Half Finance & Accounting
No flowers please – we’re professionals
NINETY-TWO per cent of office professionals feel appreciated by their boss, however, 88 per cent don’t expect any reward from them. The survey of 104 respondents also found 91 per cent believe their bosses understand and appreciate high level skills required for office professional jobs, while the most popular kinds of recognition include:
Tokens of appreciation 56%
Recognition of professional contribution44%
A bottle of Dom Perignon 1%
Source: DHL/The Australian Institute of Office Professionals
The battle of management and workers
FORTY-EIGHT per cent of Australian workers still believe an ‘us versus them’ mentality exists between employees and management. However, the survey of 717 people also found 78 per cent of CEOs and managing directors believe this divide does not exist while members of Generation X and Y said they were more relationship focused than their Baby Boomer counterparts.
Source: Talent2
