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CIPD report shows that pressure is building at the workplace

by Personnel Today 23 Oct 2009
by Personnel Today 23 Oct 2009

The percentage of workers that feel under excessive pressure at work, either every day or once or twice a week, has grown from 38% to 42% over the past six months, while net employee job satisfaction score has dropped since the spring from +46 to +37, according to latest research.

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The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) quarterly Employee Outlook survey of more than 2,000 UK employees also revealed that under a fifth (17%) of employees think it is likely they could lose their job, though the proportion of UK workers that would like to change their jobs has risen from 34% to 40% since April. Almost two-thirds of employees (62%) think that it would be difficult to get a new job if they were to be made redundant.

Claire McCartney, resourcing and talent planning adviser, CIPD, said: “Back in the spring we interpreted such high job satisfaction in the face of the recession as a ‘fixed grin’, where employees felt lucky enough just to have a job. It seems that in this quarter the fixed grin is slipping and the temporary goodwill is being replaced with increasing frustration.”

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