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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.
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.
The job market may be improving, with more and more ads online
The job market may be improving, with more and more ads online.
Latest Seek figures show job ad numbers grew by more than 9 per cent last year, on the back of positive growth in 2010.
Seek New Zealand general manager Janet Faulding says Wellington and Canterbury were the stand out performers with the southern region recording 53 per cent growth.
New jobs up 9.3% on last year
A quieter finish to the year is not on the cards for the employment sector in 2011, as the SEEK New Job Ad Index shows a 2.2% growth in new job ads in November. Over the last month all regions have posted an increase in new jobs, bar one, and there has been a national increase of 9.3% over the last 12 months.
“Surprisingly, Wellington has driven this growth notching up their biggest increase in new jobs since June with an impressive 6.