The covid pandemic reconfigured all possible areas: including work. The sudden advance towards virtuality as a result of the strict quarantines made it evident, along with its extension over the months, that a large part of the tasks can be carried out from home. With the post-pandemic period ahead, the challenge seems to be the realization of the balance between the expectations of employers and employees.
The main question is also limited to what young people with a few years of experience think about their future work scheme and who, therefore, are more malleable to changes and had less contact with attendance.
A report from May of this year carried out by the ADP Research Institute, entitled People at Work 2022: A Global Workforce View, reveals that a large part of this age group considers the possibility of look for a new job if employers insist that they come to work daily in person.
Young people and attendance: the numbers
In this way, given the desire of employers to encourage their staff to return to the office, the report reveals that younger workers are more reluctant than their older colleagues to return to the workplace full time.
According to the survey of almost 33,000 workers from 17 countries, more than seven out of ten -71%- of young people between 18 and 24 years of age and two thirds -66%– of those between 25 and 34 years of age consider the decision to leave to be feasible. their current jobs if their employer persisted in their willingness to return to full-time work at company facilities, compared to 56% of the 45-54 age group.
Taking all ages into account, two-thirds of workers globally (64%) have already looked for, or would consider looking for, another job if their employer stipulated that they must come to work at the facility every day.
The report, which explores employee attitudes toward today’s world of work and what they expect from the workplace of the future, found that In Argentina, 62% of workers would contemplate the possibility of leaving if this happened.
Alejandro Russo, Operations Regional Director and Country Leader of ADP Argentina, opined that “at a time when the population remains vulnerable to COVID-19, the question of whether workers can be asked or forced to return to the workplace if they don’t need it is fraught with controversy”.
“These results run counter to assumptions in some quarters that younger people are desperate to get back into the workplace for both social and career advancement reasons,” Russo said.
According to the specialist, this worries managers since that dynamic could harm the learning and experience of young people at the beginning of their careers. “Employers will have to find new ways to encourage them to return to a face-to-face environment, engage them once there, and help them rebuild lost confidence and skills,” he concluded.
The ADP company, specialized in assistance in the field of human resources, surveyed 32,924 workers in 17 countries around the world between November 1 and November 24, 2021. Among them were 15,683 in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom), 3,829 in North America (the United States and Canada ), 5,768 in Latin America (Argentina, Brazil and Chile) and 7,644 in Asia Pacific (Australia, China, India and Singapore).
The survey was conducted in the local language of each of the countries, and the overall results were weighted to represent the size of the workforce in each location. As detailed, the weights are based on World Bank workforce data, which is obtained from data from the ILOSTAT database, the central statistical database of the International Labor Organization (ILO), at February 8, 2022.
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