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The global workforce has undergone serious change over the past several years. The boom of remote working due to the pandemic followed by the push for employees to return to offices and economic uncertainty driving layoffs across industries has further driven fundamental changes in the ways people approach their professional lives.
Employees now find themselves pursuing multiple income streams with side jobs, managing expectations to work beyond parameters of job descriptions and face challenges like managing virtual meetings while in a physical office.
Using responses from 10,055 online respondents from the Kantar Profiles Audience Network across ten global markets (including Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, UK and US), this study sets out to explore how sentiments have changed over the past year, the positive and negative aspects of these changes for the employee and company, and the impact of anticipated future trends.
It also explores new topical workplace themes like the impact of “bossware,” “quiet quitting,” and the “gig economy,” and how experimenting with things like a 4-day workweek could influence employee job satisfaction.
Explore our findings here on:
Sentiments towards hybrid working
New ways of working
The economic impact
The post pandemic onsite workplace
This research was conducted online using 10,055 respondents sourced from the Kantar Profiles Audience Network across 10 global markets: US (1,019), Brazil (1,000), UK (1,001), Germany (1,000), France (1,019), Spain (1,000), China (1,000), India (1,015), Singapore (1,000) and South Africa (1,001).
All interviews were conducted as online self-completion between December 13, 2022 - January 6, 2023 and collected based on controlled quotas evenly distributed between generations and gender by country.
Respondents were reported to be full or part-time employees whose job function could be performed remotely at least part-time.
Some data was additionally collected on unemployed or freelance workers, to understand the impact of layoffs and alternative ways of working.
A total of 2,083 on-site only, 2,661 remote-only and 3,978 hybrid worker responses were collected across a range of industries and job functions.
Gen-Z was identified as ages 18-24, Millennials ages 25-39, Gen-X ages 40-55, and Boomers ages 56-75.
