Stay with the same company? A choice increasingly questioned by employees. Almost one in two, 45%, see today, since the health crisis, fewer reasons to stay in the same company. Moreover, more and more of them have no qualms about looking for work elsewhere while still in office. Nearly one out of two employees, according to a study carried out by OpinionWay for Microsoft, recognizes that they are actively looking for a job. The youngest employees, those under 35, are the most unfaithful: 55% of them consider it easier to send their CVs to other companies since the health crisis. As if the crisis had broken a psychological lock, had disintegrated an attachment that was stronger in the past.
One category of employees is more likely to jump ship than the others. With them, companies somehow get their own currency. The most unfaithful are those who could work remotely, but to whom their society refuses teleworking. Nearly 60% are finding fewer and fewer reasons to stay. And for those who telecommute, if their company asked them to come back 100% of the time, it would be a fatal blow to their sense of loyalty. In Ile-de-France, more than one in two would be tempted to leave.
The values of the company also weigh very heavily in the desire to stay or to leave. Themes like equality, diversity and inclusion are no longer empty values and banners that the company waves to show off. Young people and women are particularly sensitive to it. If their company went against these values, 40% of employees under 35 and 40% of women would be ready to resign. 80% of all employees would feel affected.
To make them want to stay, their business must also be modernized.
The feeling of loyalty is also linked to the simplicity of the daily tasks to be carried out at work. To make them want to stay, employees want, for example, that it be easier to search for data, that we can more easily share information and even that their company allows them to exchange within the framework of virtual worlds, through an avatar. In short, for us to want to stay there, the company must reinvent itself.