Organizing Own Time
Flexible hours and to organize their own time is the desire of many workers, but of those surveyed 58% still work at a fixed location, and they work 65% fixed hours. Employees are also increasingly in trouble with their time. Although 84% of European workers have a good balance between work and private life, 17% are experiencing high levels of stress. In particular, digital stress is higher on the employer’s agenda. This also applies to employees: do not check your email all the time.
A Job for Life
The 'job for life' is becoming less popular. A quarter of workers expect to spend the rest of their working lives with the current employer. If anyone is looking for loyal employees, Italy is the country for that, with 33% of employees who are loyal to their boss; in Poland it is 15% and in the UK 21%.
No Career Support
A third of the employees find there is not enough support in career development. According to the surveyed, ageis the biggest stumbling block.
Computer Frustration
Familiar to many: slow (30%) and aged (22%) technology is the biggest frustration in the IT field, followed by slow internet (22%). Mobile technology is high on the wish list in which a third of employees indicated that they need a laptop (32%) and a fifth (21%) require a smartphone and/or tablet.
Own Boss
The research even shows that more than two thirds of European workers are considering starting their own business and/or freelancing, and over a quarter said they had active plans to do so. Between wanting and doing is a difference. 88% of Italians and 85% of Spaniards said that they would consider a job abroad. Annually, ahundred thousand people are leaving from Spain (with a population of 47 million) to other countries for work.
Skills
Nearly 1 in 5 workers believe that they do not have the skills to perform their jobs well. This is an increase of five percentage points compared with 2015. This is primarily about communication in the globalized world and digital innovations.
Salary
Seven out of ten workers are satisfied or very satisfied with their jobs. Workers in the Netherlands are the most satisfied (76%) and workers in the UK are least satisfied (13%). Almost half of European workers find the salary and reward the biggest motivation while 1 in 20 workers say that nothing at work motivates them.
Confidence and Optimism
More than three quarters of workers are optimistic about his work for the next five years. Exceptions to this are British workers. By them the optimism went down from 81% in 2015 to 76% this year. One main factor isBrexit. Even expats are not happy with the plans.
Attractive Countries
The question is often asked whether Brexit will provide a business relocation to the Netherlands. As far as employees areconcerned, they prefer to go to another country. The Netherlands is on the ninth place as an “attractive country to work in”. Germany is in the first place.
The Workforce View in Europe in 2017 was carried out by ADP, an international company in the area of personnel and salary administration. They examined the views and opinions of almost 10,000 employees in France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Source: http://www.rtlnieuws.nl
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