The CIPD's quarterly Employee Outlook Survey, published this week, has found that we are so worried about job security that we are staying put in jobs that we would happily have abandoned in a better economic climate.
Claire McCartney, talent and resourcing adviser at the CIPD, says:
"What is striking is the high proportion of people wanting to change sector or even change their line of work altogether. Concerns over job security and finding new work are prompting people to re-think their career aspirations and ambitions. This will also have a big impact on trends in the labour market".
While surveys like this are all well and good, the old cynic in me asks whether it was really necessary to go to such great effort and expense just to hear what we all already know, that we're too scared to move.
