{"id":3154,"date":"2018-01-29T22:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T22:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2018-01-31T21:05:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:05:54","slug":"do-benefits-matter-as-much-as-they-used-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/do-benefits-matter-as-much-as-they-used-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Benefits Matter as Much as They Used to?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, job candidates used to say benefits\u00a0were the number one thing<\/a> that attracted them to a job, according to recent research. Today, the most important thing is culture.<\/p>\n

In a similar vein, just 57% of people say benefits play a part in their staying at a company, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people across the tech industry responded to the query.<\/p>\n

No significant difference from a gender perspective.<\/b><\/p>\n

The rate was 56% of men and 57% of women.<\/p>\n

\"bene3\"<\/p>\n

Interest ticks up with age<\/b><\/p>\n

As expected, those approaching the later era of their careers are more focused on benefits than those in the early parts of their career.<\/p>\n

\"BENE\"<\/p>\n

Experience matters<\/b><\/p>\n

Work experience seemed to play a minor role in whether benefits matter to a person: 58% of those with 10 years’ or more experience say benefits play a part in why they stay at a company vs. 53% of those with 1-3 years’ experience.<\/p>\n

\"bnee2\"<\/p>\n

Communications most swayed by benefits; executives least swayed<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>People in communications, admin, customer support, and HR had the highest rates of saying benefits play a part in why they stay at a company. Workers in executive roles had the lowest rates of saying the same.<\/p>\n

\"bene4\"<\/p>\n

The latest reading is as of Jan. 29.<\/p>\n

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Five years ago, job candidates used to say benefits\u00a0were the number one thing that attracted them to a job, according to recent research. Today, the most important thing is culture. In a similar vein, just 57% of people say benefits play a part in their staying at a company, according to the latest reading of … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,5],"tags":[43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154"}],"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=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}