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45% of Adult Workers Would Take Pay Cut to Get Flexibility
How important is workplace flexibility to working adults? It’s important enough that 45% would sacrifice a portion of their salary to get it, according to a Staffing Industry Analysts article citing a Moms Corps survey.
They are also willing to give up increasingly large percentages of their salaries to get that flexibility. This year, they said they would be willing to take an 8.6% pay cut.
Work-life fit and job enjoyment top retention factors
Workers say they stay with their current employers because of work-life fit and job enjoyment – as opposed to more “concrete” reasons like benefits, pay or a lack of other job opportunities, according to a new survey by the American Psychological Association (APA).
What Successful People Do With The First Hour Of Their Work Day
How much does the first hour of every day matter? As it turns out, a lot. It can be the hour you see everything clearly, get one real thing done, and focus on the human side of work rather than your task list.
Remember when you used to have a period at the beginning of every day to think about your schedule, catch up with friends, maybe knock out a few tasks? It was called home room, and it went away after high school.
Wages up 0.5 per cent in last quarter
Wages data for the June quarter show scant sign of any acceleration in wage inflation.
Statistics New Zealand’s labour cost index recorded an increase of 0.5 per cent in private sector salary and ordinary time wage rates in the quarter – in line with the average quarterly increase over the past two years – making it 2.1 per cent for the year, unchanged from the March quarter.
Working with Recruiters Made Easy
Your average job seeker just doesn’t “get” what a recruiter does. This is apparent to anyone that’s ever heard a friend or relative complain about a recruiter “not finding them a job.” If you’re planning on working with recruiters or with a staffing firm, here are a few things to keep in mind.
NZ employees on the hunt for new jobs
New Zealand employers may struggle to retain workers over the next 12 months, with 68 percent of employees likely to be looking for a new job, according to the Kelly Global Workforce Index.
That’s just higher than the international average of 66 percent, the global survey canvasing about 170,000 people across 30 countries has found.
Out of the 3,500 New Zealanders surveyed, 50 percent said they were happy in their job, while 27 percent said they were unhappy.