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The Pandemic Has Forced People to Rethink What They Want From a Job, but Pay, Benefits Still Top the List
Benefits have become increasingly important in recent years, and flexibility has become more essential since the pandemic, experts say
By Alyssa Meyers
August 2, 2021 at 12:01 am ET
31% of employed U.S. adults said pay would be their top consideration for a job offer.
29% mentioned something to do with benefits, and 15% said schedule flexibility would sway them.
18% of employees said they would quit if they faced pandemic-related mandates such as wearing masks or getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
Workers are in high demand in the United States, and given the pandemic’s impact on how people think about work-life balance, hiring and keeping good employees is more challenging than ever. Yet new Morning Consult data indicates that when it comes to what they seek in a job, Americans place the most value on the basics: high salaries and competitive benefits.
Morning Consult gave 1,121 employed U.S. adults a blank space to describe incentives that would make them consider joining a company immediately, and the largest shares mentioned wages (31 percent) and benefits such as paid time off and insurance coverage (29 percent)...
The Pandemic Has Forced People to Rethink What They Want From a Job, but Pay, Benefits Still Top the List
Benefits have become increasingly important in recent years, and flexibility has become more essential since the pandemic, experts say
By Alyssa Meyers
August 2, 2021 at 12:01 am ET
31% of employed U.S. adults said pay would be their top consideration for a job offer.
29% mentioned something to do with benefits, and 15% said schedule flexibility would sway them.
18% of employees said they would quit if they faced pandemic-related mandates such as wearing masks or getting a COVID-19 vaccine.
Workers are in high demand in the United States, and given the pandemic’s impact on how people think about work-life balance, hiring and keeping good employees is more challenging than ever. Yet new Morning Consult data indicates that when it comes to what they seek in a job, Americans place the most value on the basics: high salaries and competitive benefits.
Morning Consult gave 1,121 employed U.S. adults a blank space to describe incentives that would make them consider joining a company immediately, and the largest shares mentioned wages (31 percent) and benefits such as paid time off and insurance coverage (29 percent)...