A recent survey conducted by the consulting firm WTW attempts to answer how satisfied Latin Americans feel with their current job.
One of the, let’s say, positive effects that the pandemic delivered is the fact that, today, issues such as mental health, personal well-being, among others, have become a priority for a considerable number of people.
Today, and for a few years, there has been talk of “toxicity” (“toxic” jobs, “toxic” relationships, etc.), a term that defines, in general terms, those situations that, in one way or another, generate harm , emotional and physical, in individuals.
In this context, it is necessary to say that one of the reasons why employees decide to leave their jobs is the bad work environment in which they work, according to a survey carried out between February and March 2019, by love mondays.
Now, as is well known, the arrival of the pandemic generated a large number of unemployed people around the world, and now, well into 2022, the situation remains different and with different expectations for the future.
According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), in 2020, a total of 1 billion full-time jobs were lost globally.l, being the American continent one of the regions that suffered the most from the economic crisis derived from the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
Are Latin Americans satisfied with their work?
Today, as we mentioned above, employees are looking for spaces where, beyond the economic, the work environment is beneficial in every way.
In this sense, a recent survey carried out by the WTW consultancy between the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022, called Global Benefits Attitudes Survey – Latin Americawhich reveals that 56 percent of Latin Americans currently plan to stay in their jobs.
However, 45 percent of respondents are open to new proposals or plan to quit for reasons such as salary (59 percent), career advancement (40 percent), and job security (38 percent). hundred).
Now, it should be noted that, according to what the study expresses, workers who are open to other job offers are more likely to feel exhausted (63 percent) and experience anxiety or even depression (57 percent). ).
In other words, this sector of the respondents are more likely to suffer from the so-called “burnout”, which, according to what the World Health Organization (WHO) called, is a professional illness, including it among the main problems mental health in your International Classification of Diseases.
Of course, this is not really new, since the Love Mondays survey conducted in 2019 -and mentioned above- reveals that the three main reasons why Mexicans quit their jobs are:
- Salary dissatisfaction, with 24.3 percent.
- Lack of growth opportunities, with 22.8 percent.
- A bad work environment, with 13.1 percent.