It may be surprising to hear, but your company’s noble mission isn’t what keeps most people coming back everyday.
It’s all about comfort
Thirty-four percent of workers rated “comfort and familiarity” as the main reason they stay at their company, according to data by Comparably. The next most popular response was “compensation and benefits” (26%).
The least important factors were coworkers (33%), company mission (13%), and career advancement opportunities (12%).
It makes sense: leaving one job for another exposes you to a whole variety of unknowns. Unless you’re completely miserable at a current job, it’s often easier to stay the course than to shake things up — though “easier” doesn’t mean “better.”
A big exception
On a department level, everyone from engineers to lawyers to IT workers chose “comfort and familiarity” as number one *except* those in the executive suite. Their reason for staying at their company was overwhelmingly “company mission.”
The city where comfort and familiarity matters most
Forty-two percent of the survey’s respondents from Dallas chose “comfort and familiarity” — a higher rate than any other city.
The figures above come from a May 31 reading of an ongoing query of tech workers.
