What’s keeping workers in their jobs? High salary? Working environment? The prestige of the company? Knowing the wants of the workers is important as it will be evident in their performance.Apparently, a new survey from the City and Guilds provides a very different perspective on what does the workers really want.

In their survey, 57% of workers said they are keeping their job because they are really interested in it, 56% responded that it is their officemates who gives them the reason to come to office everyday and just 46% said that a high salary keeps them from resigning.

The survey also found out that workers are looking for a flexible working arrangement with their company. For instance, allowing them to work from home. Lacking this makes the worker unhappy at work.

Bob Coates, managing director of City and Guilds who conducted the survey said, “Companies can no longer rely on those established reward and recognition policies that fail to commensurate with employees and do little to combat stress levels in the workplace.

Source: www.smartcompany.com.au