Hudson research shows that employees are still driven by money, though the balance seems to be shifting to non-pay issues.
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Home Is Where Workers’ Hearts Are: Flexibility that contributes to better
work/life balance is the most important job factor for nearly one in three U.S.
workers, supplanting even compensation as the top concern, Hudson says in a new
survey. About 23 percent of employees still rank pay as the make-or-break item
when considering jobs, but 29 percent want occupations that enable them to
strike a better equilibrium between their professional and personal lives.
Hudson, a recruitment and talent consulting firm in New York, interviewed
nearly 1,640 people. Also noteworthy is this anomalous finding: 66 percent say
they got their present job through an active search, as opposed to being
recruited by headhunters. That seems anomalous to other earlier research that
suggests companies are recruiting more “incumbent” passive workers from their
competitors--a condition precipitated by a dearth of qualified candidates being
available in the nation’s labor pool.
Workforce Management contributing editor Garry Kranz is based in Richmond, Virginia. E-mail editors@workforce.com to comment.
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