The working day is a few days away and news accounts include well -known stories about workers’ dissatisfaction. Many of these reports give a false and incomplete picture of workers’ views on their jobs and workplaces.
The Americans are not happy with the direction of the economy and the poll scores on Donald Trump’s handling are among his lower ones. What is more politically concerned is that most Americans expect things to worsen. Still, with many different measures on what work and workplaces are like every day, Americans who have jobs on this day of work are expressing significant satisfaction.
Happy workers? In mid -August Economist/Yougov Poll25% of people with jobs said they were very happy with them, while 40% were happy. Only 7% was unhappy and 3% very unhappy. What stands out in this poll and many others is the low level of work dissatisfaction Throughout the territory. In The last gallup48% of adults who employed full or part -time said they were completely satisfied with their work and another 38% were somewhat satisfied. Only 10% were somewhat unhappy and 3% completely unhappy. In the last decade, no more than 13% of respondents said they were somewhat or very unhappy with their jobs. PewIt uses a different scale from Gallup and also finds a very low level of dissatisfaction. Fifteen percent in their latest poll were extremely satisfied with their work, 35% very satisfied, 38% a bit satisfied, 9% and 2% at all satisfied.
Special work details: The “absolutely satisfied” response is a very high bar, but Gallup finds that the majority of adults who are full or part -time are completely Satisfied with the safety of their workplaces (70%), their relationships with their colleagues (67%), the flexibility of their hours (63%), their boss (60%), their work security (57%), the amount of holidays they receive (54%)
It is not surprising that there is more concern about remuneration and benefits, but here too, answers are repaying the narrative of unhappy workers. Thirty -six percent in Gallup’s latest poll were completely satisfied with their health insurance and another 28% are somewhat satisfied. Thirty -five percent are fully satisfied with their retirement plans, with another 32% is something like that. Thirty -one percent are still fully satisfied with the money they earn, and another 44% are somewhat satisfied. For each of these three elements, only about 10% were completely unhappy.
Perhaps more impressive than one year’s answers are Gallup trends in all these objects. The organization has raised the same questions annually since 2001 and the results are remarkable and positive.
Pew measures the attitude towards the characteristics of work similar to Gallup’s. The five -part response scale produces lower “extremely” satisfied answers from the “completely” satisfied. In both polls, however, the dissatisfaction of the work is low. No more than 13 percent stated that “they were not satisfied at all” with any of the 10 items that Pew has watched.
The 11thth The element, the ability to work remotely, produces greater discontent. Twenty -eight percent told Pew that they are not satisfied with this aspect of their work. In Gallup’s survey, 14% was completely unhappy with it. Polls show that people prefer a hybrid regulation if possible.
There are differences in the way demographic groups respond to these questions. Higher income workers and whites are generally more satisfied than lower income and black workers. Young people, who are just starting at the bottom of the income scale, are often more unhappy than elderly workers with working characteristics such as pay. But they are usually more optimistic than the elderly for their long-term prospects- their dissatisfaction is an indicator of where they are in the life cycle. And today with high unemployment for new participants in the workforce, many of whom are young, is a very difficult time.
Our trends show that some worries in the workplace disappear and new ones arise. Gallup still asks people about the safety of their workplaces. Most workers today are very confident about it, but that didn’t happen in the 1960s or before. In the Roper Starch Worldwide Data from the 1970s on the purpose of work, the importance of free time became clear and the idea of work-life balance was born. Employees seem to be satisfied with the flexibility of their timetables, but recent polls, as those mentioned above, show discontent so that they can work distance.
Polls and consultants make a bunch of money by telling companies what their employees want and custom approaches are undoubtedly useful for companies in a competitive business environment. What they should not kill is the steady finding that most workers are happy with most of their work. Good work day.
