As of: March 14, 2024, 7:23 p.m
By: Hannes Niemeyer
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Unsatisfied in your job?
Apparently there are a few people in Germany.
In any case, millions of people are thinking about changing careers, a new study shows.
Munich - Home office, higher workloads, rising costs in private life - hardly any event in recent years has disrupted the world of work as much as the corona pandemic.
Employers found themselves confronted with completely new conditions in the short term.
But a lot also changed for the employees.
For many, the events have apparently led to a fundamental rethinking of their own work situation.
At least that's what a new study that has now been published shows.
Accordingly, not only are many people now questioning their jobs, many are even at the point where they have already mentally resigned.
Shocking figures in study: Millions of Germans have already given notice
According to the new survey, employees in Germany are increasingly willing to change jobs.
Only around 53 percent of those surveyed completely agreed with the statement that they intended to still be employed by the same company in a year.
In 2018, this proportion was around 78 percent, and it has been falling continuously since then.
This emerges from a current survey by the consulting firm Gallup, which will be presented on Thursday.
Millions of employees in Germany are dissatisfied with their jobs, says a study.
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Expert Enzo Weber from the Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research in Nuremberg also confirms that there is a greater willingness to change in the labor market than during Corona times.
In his view, this is a normalization to pre-pandemic levels.
Why do so many Germans want to change jobs?
Expert explains situation and does not recognize any “warning signal”
Employees change jobs when there are good opportunities on the labor market, explained Weber.
“That is currently the case.” Companies are also hiring more and recruiting workers elsewhere.
Another reason for the increased willingness to change could be that employees are no longer satisfied with their jobs or there are upheavals so that they are looking for more lucrative employment - as is currently happening with digitalization.
“This is something that happens in transformation.
“I wouldn’t see that as a warning signal,” emphasized Weber.
According to the Gallup survey, employee loyalty and trust in their company's prospects have recently declined.
According to this, 19 percent of those surveyed said they had no emotional connection to their employer - the highest level since 2012. Extrapolated to employees aged 18 and over in Germany, that's 7.3 million employees who had internally quit, Gallup said .
At the same time, only around 40 percent said in the survey that they had complete confidence in their employer's financial future - so, with the exception of a high during the Corona period, this value has been falling for years.
Meanwhile, it's not just many employees who are dissatisfied.
The situation is also difficult for employers.
The German economy is in decline - companies such as an electric car manufacturer are repeatedly filing for bankruptcy.
(han/dpa)