{"id":3817,"date":"2018-04-20T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T10:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3817"},"modified":"2019-01-16T23:55:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:55:40","slug":"what-employees-would-change-if-they-were-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/what-employees-would-change-if-they-were-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: What Employees Would Change if They Were in Charge"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are any number of things that a person might change about their job. But what\u2019s the top one?<\/p>\n

Comparably<\/b><\/a> asked users what their number one priority<\/a> would be if they were the boss. The data comes from the anonymous salary records of almost 26,000 Comparably users across the tech sector.<\/p>\n

Improve vision\/strategy was the No. 1 response overall<\/b><\/p>\n

Thirty-one percent of respondents said they would \u201cbetter vision\/strategy,\u201d making it the top response overall. The next most popular responses were \u201cincrease employee pay\u201d (23%) and \u201cimprove office culture\u201d (23%). The least popular responses were \u201cmake a better product\u201d (15%) and \u201ccut expenses\u201d (8%). <\/b> \"LAL\"<\/b><\/p>\n

Women ranked \u2018increase employee pay\u2019 at nearly the same level of importance as \u2018better vision\/strategy.\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>Twenty-six percent of women surveyed chose \u201cincrease employee pay,\u201d making it the second-most popular response by a percentage point after \u201cbetter vision\/strategy\u201d (27%). By comparison, 21% of men selected \u201cincrease employee pay\u201d and 33% chose \u201cbetter vision\/strategy.\u201d\"go\"<\/b><\/p>\n

<\/b>Gen Zers chose \u2018increase employee pay\u2019 as their top choice<\/b><\/p>\n

The only age group to choose something other than \u201cbetter vision\/strategy\u201d as their top choice were those between 18 and 25. Twenty-six percent of them chose \u201cincrease employee pay.\u201d<\/p>\n

18 to 25 \"picu\"<\/b><\/p>\n

Finance workers chose office culture; admin and customer support chose pay<\/b><\/p>\n

Workers in every department \u2013 from engineering to design to HR to legal \u2013 chose \u201cincrease employee pay\u201d as their top answer except<\/b> for finance, customer support, and admin. The most popular answer among finance workers was \u201cimprove office culture\u201d (29%), while the most popular answer among those who work in customer support and admin was \u201cincrease employee pay\u201d (37% and 33%, respectively.)<\/p>\n

Finance<\/p>\n

\"glee\"Customer Support<\/p>\n

\"pop\"<\/p>\n

Admin<\/p>\n

\"admin\"<\/p>\n

Results are as of April 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are any number of things that a person might change about their job. But what\u2019s the top one? Comparably asked users what their number one priority would be if they were the boss. The data comes from the anonymous salary records of almost 26,000 Comparably users across the tech sector. Improve vision\/strategy was the … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,3],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817"}],"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=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6423,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions\/6423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}