Since 2019, the year in which the corona burst into our lives, the employment market in Israel has undergone a revolution: job seekers prefer jobs that also allow them to work from home - to save time in traffic jams, and to better balance careers with home and family.
"Compared to 2019, there was a big change in job seekers. Even then we were in full employment, but the attitude of the employees was different," says Libby Raspberry, employer manager at the JobMaster career management site. It was customary to work in any situation - on weekends, at night - and the balance was significantly skewed in the direction of work and not of home. "
"Today the situation is different, and workers want to maintain a balance - there is work time and there is home time. More and more workers will prefer a workplace based on the time they have to stay in traffic jams. Many employers have started allowing a hybrid work model because they know otherwise it will be difficult To keep their employees for a long time. "
According to a survey conducted by the site among 300 employees aged 55-25 from a variety of fields, the issue of traffic jams is one of the most influential factors in employee satisfaction: 56% of respondents said they spend up to an hour in traffic jams (round trip), 29% between one and two hours. 10% responded that more than two hours, and 5% stuck in traffic jams even more than three hours.
It further emerged that 54% of respondents do not work at all on weekends, 29% said they would work only in exceptional cases, while 10% answered that they work almost every weekend.
Even after work hours
Despite the marked improvement in the balance between home and work, there is still room for improvement when it comes to adapting managers to the changing reality.
Thus, about a quarter of employees said that their managers tend to send them WhatsApp messages on work matters in the late evening, while about 75% answered that they receive these messages to a very small extent.
The survey also examined whether employees receive emails about work matters on weekends: 76% answered that to a very small extent to very few, and on the other hand 24% said that they receive these messages moderately to very much.
Raspberry wants to emphasize that "the trend between home and work does not assume that employees do not take the workplace seriously, but rather a desire to maintain a quality of life alongside professional development. Managers also understand this, and quite a few workplaces have established a kind of procedures document .
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