Professionals Are Less Happy With Work Post-COVID

Post-Covid, professionals care more about flexibility on location and work-life balance and less about professional growth potential and culture, according to a survey by Blind and Charthop. 

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Nearly one year into the pandemic, workplace satisfaction is as hard to capture as ever. Blind, anonymous professional network, and Charthop, a data-driven management platform, jointly surveyed 3,400 professionals to better understand how companies supported their employees during Covid-19 and how they influenced employee happiness. .

Professionals Are Less Happy With Work Post-COVID

Professionals in HR and Sales are much less happy post-COVID, whereas people in strategy, finance, engineering, or marketing are only marginally less happy 66% of sales professionals were happy pre-covid Now, only 45% of sales professionals are happy 46% of finance professionals were happy pre-covid Similarly, 35% of finance professionals remain happy Everyone values growth potential less and flexibility on location more post-COVID 21% of professionals valued growth potential pre-covid Now, only 14% of professionals value growth potential  8% of professionals valued location flexibility pre-covid Currently, 16% of professionals value flexibility Work-life balance matters much more post-COVID for Finance/HR but matters less for marketing and sales 32% of HR professionals valued work-life balance pre-covid Now, 42% of HR professionals value work-life balance 37% of sales professionals valued work-life balance pre-covid Currently, 35% of sales professionals value work-life balance Transparency from leadership and compensation matter the same for all industries except sales/support, which values transparency more post-COVID Culture matters less to everyone across the board

Other Findings

LinkedIn employees’ happiness dropped from 3.9 to 3.1 This drop was driven by more value on work-life balance and location flexibility and less value on culture and professional growth potential.  Facebook saw a similar trend. Airbnb happiness dropped from 3.9 to 3.2 The drop was driven by more value on transparency from leadership and location flexibility and much less value on culture. AmEx, Accenture, Bloomberg, and Tesla are among others that saw happiness increases between pre-and post-COVID

Many survey respondents were employed at tech companies, with representation highest from the following organizations: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Facebook, Dropbox, Intuit, and Uber. While the majority of the respondents work in tech, these results also reflect the finance and HR/ sales industries.

The survey of 3,400 full-time workers was conducted on Blind’s platform from January 15th -January 27th, 2020.

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