According to a survey, almost one in four office workers in Germany is dissatisfied with their job. In a survey published on Tuesday on behalf of the technology company Slack, 23 percent said they did. Six percent have concrete change intentions.
If you ask all employees what could bring them to a job change, the most common answer is a lack of pay (82 percent). This is followed by an unhealthy work-life balance with 74 percent and dissatisfaction with the supervisor (72 percent).
29 percent of the more than 2,000 respondents in the survey conducted by YouGov would be willing in principle to move to another city for a new job. Hamburg would be the most common choice, followed by Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt and Cologne.
Home office popular
Basically, most office workers no longer want to go to the office every day. 56 percent were in favor of a mixture of office and mobile work. On the other hand, only 20 percent want to work exclusively from the office, and 18 percent only from home or on the go.
In the survey, YouGov also specifically evaluated responses from employees in technical roles. For you, dissatisfaction and concrete intentions to change were less common. In return, they were more willing to change cities and more often fans of hybrid or mobile workspaces.
“If companies want to have a chance in the competition for the best talent today, they have to offer flexible working conditions and the right digital infrastructure,” said Oliver Blüher, Head of Central Europe at Slack. For the survey, 2090 people with office jobs were interviewed online in late October and early November, including 1009 employees in technical functions.
