Job security is more important than salary

For the first time in the 22-year history of the “work monitor” created by Randstad, job security (79 percent) has a higher priority than the salary (75 percent) for employees. The “work-life balance” (71 percent) is already followed by a third place.

750 Austrians between the ages of 18 and 67 were interviewed for the global study. Striking: The under 30s even say four out of ten people say that they no longer want to work if money didn’t matter. In the global context of the study, job security and work-life balance as a motivation factor for work are still the first time before the salary.

Change of job from frustration

Despite a pronounced need for security, the workers are much more ready to change the employer. According to the study, 55 percent would terminate due to a lack of belonging. In the last survey two years ago, this only affirmed 19 percent.

Missing future prospects such as learning and development opportunities are a reason for termination for every fifth. “Nowadays, professional success is no longer only defined by the activity itself, but also by why, how and with whom is worked” Bjørn Toonen Managing Director of Randstad Austria.

Employers are required

It is therefore understandable that dissatisfaction with one or more of these factors inevitably leads to frustration in the job, “even if the actual activity is fun”. In principle, the economic crisis and the generation change would change the values ​​and motifs on the domestic labor market. Employers should take this even more into account in order to attract talents or to bind employees in the long term. branch