The most recent report by Deloitte and the market research company Workplace Intelligence, published on June 15, showed that almost 70% of people with executive positions consider quitting their jobs for others that give them greater well-being.
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Likewise, 56% of those consulted had resigned positions that they felt it was affecting them negatively in their personal lives. In fact, many are demanding that their jobs allow them to get seven hours of sleep a day, in addition to being able to have leisure time with acquaintances, the opportunity to exercise daily and a minimum of 30 minutes for lunch.
Given the results, the aforementioned companies decided to carry out the survey of members of executive positions in United States, Australia, United Kingdom and Canada. Also employees of the companies they led.
In total, the sample was made up of 2,100 individuals who provided their perceptions of well-being in work spaces.
The research showed that 81% of executives prioritized personal well-being over advancing and growing professionally. However, among regular employees only the 56% expressed a similar wish.
Dissatisfaction after the pandemic
While 97% of managers were convinced that they had made adequate accommodations since the covid-19 pandemic, only 56% of employees considered the changes made during the health emergency were effective.
The disparities in the perception of workers regarding well-being in professional spaces is a trend that continues. On the one hand, business management c88% consider that their behavior in the pandemic it was exemplary because it strengthened teleworking. On the other hand, less than 60% of employees in lower positions agree with this statement.
In fact, many argue that since the pandemic, working hours have intensified and that stress conditions in professional spaces have increased significantly.
According to another Deloitte survey, 4 out of 10 professionals they are experiencing the ‘burn out’ syndrome. This implies, according to Mapfre, that workers have chronic work stress and manifest it in physical and mental fatigue, which not only affects the employee’s performance, but also has health consequences and is prone to generating high levels of anxiety.
Likewise, professionals have shown that they are more ‘burned out’ than a year ago, in particular employees who are part of Generation Z (47%), workers in the technology industry (44%) and women (43%).
In the case of people who they work as independent 70% of those surveyed expressed that they are working for more hours per day than they did before the start of the pandemic.
One of the authors of the research highlighted that currently employees are more prepared to quit any job that they find unsatisfying. Even when contractual benefits are good, a toxic work environment is prioritized to keep workers away.
“A single hint of toxicity sends them running. Maybe they would have put up with it a few years ago, but after the pandemic they don’t let it gor,” the study authors explained.
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Despite this, it is those in managerial positions who tend to resign more often, and according to the Deloitte study, this is because they have greater financial security to run the risk of being unemployed while they find a job that suits them. the conditions of well-being that they desire.
Likewise, they point out that employers request that there be more training for the adequate protection and maintenance of the well-being of employees in work environments.
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