In 2018, Australian workers are demanding better pay and rewards, better career prospects and job security, and if they don’t receive it, they will leave. This is compared to two years ago when employees said they wanted to enjoy work, better pay and work /life balance.
Today, more than seven out of ten Australian employees have revealed that they are apprehensive about digital transformation. A total of 39% fear their job is at risk due to the digital economy, while a further 37% are worried they don’t have the right skills to compete in the digital economy.
The fact that more than a third confessed they expected to change their employer within a year was compounded by almost half (49%) of Australian employees believed that their employer/manager was not actively engaging in helping them acquire new skill sets to "future-proof" their careers.
"An escalating war for digital talent is driving this phenomenon. The changing nature of jobs enabled by digital technologies is unsettling the workplace landscape, looking back over the research we conducted two years ago, we have seen a dramatic increase in the number of employees saying they would leave if the right opportunity came along," said Tom Shields, Vice President for Workday Asia Pacific.
"It is an alarming volume that is creating the potential for a tsunami of workplace musical chairs and it applies to businesses, large and small, across a wide range of business sectors. Australian employers who fail to understand and react to its impact, do so at their peril,"
The IDC Asia Pacific Employee Sentiment Survey 2018 was commissioned by Workday and was announced at Elevate Sydney. ---
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