{"id":2013,"date":"2017-03-15T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2018-03-15T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T17:24:58","slug":"reason-quit-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/reason-quit-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s Why Feeling Unappreciated at Work Is a Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to quit your job tomorrow, what would be the reason? For nearly 40% of people, feeling underpaid or unappreciated would be it, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/73-hypothetically-if-you-were-to-quit-tomorrow-what-would-your-reason-be\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>.\u00a0The query garnered\u00a0nearly 33,000 responses from employees across the tech world.<\/p>\n<p><b>The value of feeling appreciated<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3550 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/ga.jpg\" alt=\"ga\" width=\"698\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/ga-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/12\/ga.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Feeling underpaid or unappreciated was the No. 1 reason people say they would hypothetically quit their jobs tomorrow,\u00a0followed next by a lack of career advancement. Negative work environment and company instability were the next reasons, followed last by difficult coworkers.<\/p>\n<p><b>Men vs. women<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/73-hypothetically-if-you-were-to-quit-tomorrow-what-would-your-reason-be\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2017\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2017\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/MW-2.png\" alt=\"MW\" width=\"1012\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/MW-2-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/MW-2-768x296.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/MW-2.png 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Men and women ranked each option in the same order, though men cited lack of career advancement more frequently than women.<\/p>\n<p><b>The one exception<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers in all departments &#8212; from engineering to legal to business development &#8212; ranked &#8220;underpaid or unappreciated&#8221; as the No. 1 answer, except for one: people who work in product chose &#8220;lack of career advancement&#8221; as the main reason they would quit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/73-hypothetically-if-you-were-to-quit-tomorrow-what-would-your-reason-be\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2018\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/PRODUCT.png\" alt=\"PRODUCT\" width=\"645\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/PRODUCT-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/10\/PRODUCT.png 645w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results are\u00a0as of\u00a0March. 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were to quit your job tomorrow, what would be the reason? For nearly 40% of people, feeling underpaid or unappreciated would be it, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably.\u00a0The query garnered\u00a0nearly 33,000 responses from employees across the tech world. The value of feeling appreciated Feeling underpaid or unappreciated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/reason-quit-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4,65],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3551,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions\/3551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}