Interesting that our workplace priorities seem to have returned to those espoused by older generations. Job security moved from mid-level of importance to #1.
What’s Important to Employees
The Society for Human Resource Management (see www.shrm.org ) had employees use a 4-point scale to indicate what’s “very unimportant” (that’s a 1) or “very important” (that’s a 4).
The percentages below indicate how many people gave the item a 4, meaning “very important.”
The 601 full- or part-time employees were randomly selected from the U.S. telephone population.
- Job security 63%
- Benefits 60%
- Compensation/Pay 57%
- Opportunity to use skills/abilities 55%
- Feeling safe in the work environment 54%
- Relationship with the immediate supervisor 52%
- Management recognition of employee job performance 52%
- Communication between employees and senior management 51%
- The work itself 50%
- Autonomy and independence 47%
- Flexibility to balance life and work issues 46%
- Meaningfulness of job 45%
- Overall corporate culture 45%
- Relationships with co-workers 42%
- Contribution of work to organization’s business goals 39%
- Job-specific training 35%
- Variety of work 34%
- Career advancement opportunities 32%
- Organization’s commitment to corporate social responsibility 31%
- Organization’s commitment to professional development 30%
- Paid training and tuition reimbursement programs 29%
- Career development opportunities 22%
- Organization’s commitment to a “green” workplace 17%
Article by Todd Raphael reprinted from ERE.net
