24 percent of workers in Austria currently want to change jobs. The hotel and catering industry and tourism are particularly affected. Four out of ten employees want to leave the industry here, reports the Upper Austrian Labor Chamber.
“Nowhere are employees more dissatisfied than in the inns and hotels (…). Bad working conditions and high stress drive people away (…)”, representatives of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor (AK OÖ) said in a broadcast. Especially in the first year of the pandemic, the willingness to change had increased. The reasons given by AK-OÖ chairman Andreas Stangl are a lack of satisfaction with income and working hours.
According to the Work Climate Index, only 44 percent of employees in inns and hotels are satisfied with their income. That is 15 percentage points less than the average of all sectors. At the same time, Stangl stressed on Friday that “of course there are also companies that work correctly and make an effort”.
More than one in ten feel underqualified
Another result of the work climate index, which surveyed 4,000 people from different industries, is that 12 percent of employees feel underqualified and 15 percent overqualified. These groups have an above-average workload and are dissatisfied. Among them are mainly people with a migration background, especially from Eastern Europe.
Stangl, with a view to staff discussions, pointed out that a distinction should be made between a shortage of skilled workers and a shortage of personnel. “While a shortage of skilled workers refers to the actual lack of new workers with the right qualifications, labor shortage means the difficulty of individual companies or industries in not finding or retaining workers despite sufficient supply because working conditions are simply too unattractive.”
Job satisfaction depends, among other things, on social integration in the company, working hours and career prospects.
Source: Krone
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