It is not booze, fags or flab that many people fantasise about giving up this new year. One in four working people in Britain want to celebrate 2005 by quitting their jobs.
It is not booze, fags or flab that many people fantasise about giving up this new year. One in four working people in Britain want to celebrate 2005 by quitting their jobs.
Whether this resolution joins the crash diet and gym membership in falling into abeyance by the second week of January remains to be seen, but it appears that employers are doing little to address disillusionment at work. Some 83% of those intending to leave their jobs believe their boss is not doing anything to address their reasons for quitting, according to the YouGov survey for software company Zynap.
The survey revealed that 59% of the workforce is looking for new job opportunities, with the time spent reflecting on life over the festive season acting as a trigger for one in four people to seek a change. In many cases, an unsatisfactory balance between work and play was the reason given for wanting to resign. Only 11% of those surveyed said they had an extremely good work/life balance, while one in five rated it poor or extremely poor. One in three believed their employer was "bad or very bad" at addressing the issue.
"The kneejerk reaction to the threat of losing talented people is often to pay more," said Chris Macklin of Zynap. "The survey shows that career developm