{"id":3703,"date":"2018-04-04T21:31:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3703"},"modified":"2018-04-04T21:32:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T21:32:27","slug":"this-is-what-actually-keeps-people-at-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/this-is-what-actually-keeps-people-at-their-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Actually Keeps People at Their Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What keeps you at your job? For 34% of people, it&#8217;s &#8220;comfort and familiarity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/79-what-s-the-main-reason-you-stay-at-your-current-company\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Comaparably<\/a> of more than 10,000 people across the tech industry.<\/p>\n<p><b>It doesn&#8217;t matter how old you are<\/b><\/p>\n<p>No matter your age, the answer is the same: comfort and familiarity are number one. Check out this sampling:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">18 to 25-year-olds<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3707 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/aw.jpg\" alt=\"aw\" width=\"341\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/aw-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/aw.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 341px) 85vw, 341px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">46 to 50-year-olds<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3708 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/aw2.jpg\" alt=\"aw2\" width=\"339\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/aw2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/aw2.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 339px) 85vw, 339px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The lowest-ranked were &#8220;company mission&#8221; and &#8220;career advancement&#8221; opportunities<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Least important to workers are the company&#8217;s mission and opportunities for career advancement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3704 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/comf.jpg\" alt=\"comf\" width=\"702\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/comf-300x82.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/comf.jpg 702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Men and women answered nearly identically<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There were no significant differences between the way men and women answered the query.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3705 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/comf2.jpg\" alt=\"comf2\" width=\"542\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/comf2-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/comf2.jpg 542w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 85vw, 542px\" \/> The latest reading is as of April 4.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What keeps you at your job? For 34% of people, it&#8217;s &#8220;comfort and familiarity.&#8221; That&#8217;s according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comaparably of more than 10,000 people across the tech industry. It doesn&#8217;t matter how old you are No matter your age, the answer is the same: comfort and familiarity are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/this-is-what-actually-keeps-people-at-their-jobs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,6],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703"}],"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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3711,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}