{"id":3552,"date":"2018-03-16T17:45:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2018-03-16T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T17:45:39","slug":"people-over-40-arent-getting-enough-valuable-feedback-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/people-over-40-arent-getting-enough-valuable-feedback-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"People Over 40 Aren&#8217;t Getting Enough Valuable Feedback at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good bosses and employees\u00a0know that feedback should be given well and given often. Unfortunately it seems the percentage of people who continue to get valuable feedback in the later half of their careers seems to be dwindling.<\/p>\n<p><b>The over-40 slump<\/b><\/p>\n<p>According to the latest reading of an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/23-how-often-do-you-get-valuable-feedback-on-how-to-improve-at-work\">ongoing query<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>, 25% of employees over age 40 say they &#8220;never&#8221; get valuable feedback on how to improve at work. Just 18% of younger workers (18 to 40) say the same.<\/p>\n<p>Sampling of age groups:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">18 to 25<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/23-how-often-do-you-get-valuable-feedback-on-how-to-improve-at-work\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3555\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3555 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ee.jpg\" alt=\"ee\" width=\"349\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ee-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ee.jpg 349w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 349px) 85vw, 349px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">46 to 50<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3554 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/46to50.jpg\" alt=\"46to50\" width=\"342\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/46to50-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/46to50.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 85vw, 342px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>The same pattern in experience<\/b><\/p>\n<p>From an experience perspective, the trend seems to follow:\u00a0employees with 3 years or less experience\u00a0seem to receive valuable feedback\u00a0every week or every month; employees with 3 to 10 years&#8217; experience receive valuable feedback once a quarter; and employees with 10 years&#8217; or more experience receive valuable feedback &#8220;never&#8221; more than any other option.<\/p>\n<p>10+ years&#8217; experience<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3556 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/l.jpg\" alt=\"l\" width=\"336\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/l-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/l.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 85vw, 336px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Education\u00a0and gender appear to be disconnected<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a correlation with level of education or gender in terms of the frequency of getting valuable feedback.\u00a0Employees with their high school diplomas were just as likely to say they get feedback once a week, month, or year nearly as often as employees with a higher education.<\/p>\n<p>The latest reading is as of\u00a0March 16\u00a0and includes the responses of more than 10,000 employees across the tech industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tell Us: How often do you get valuable feedback at work? Let us know in the comments below.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good bosses and employees\u00a0know that feedback should be given well and given often. Unfortunately it seems the percentage of people who continue to get valuable feedback in the later half of their careers seems to be dwindling. The over-40 slump According to the latest reading of an\u00a0ongoing query\u00a0by\u00a0Comparably, 25% of employees over age 40 say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/people-over-40-arent-getting-enough-valuable-feedback-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,6],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552"}],"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=3552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3552\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}