{"id":570,"date":"2017-05-30T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2017-05-26T15:18:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:18:41","slug":"what-keeps-people-at-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/what-keeps-people-at-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"What Keeps People at a Job? Comfort and Familiarity."},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be surprising to hear, but your company\u2019s noble mission isn\u2019t what keeps most people coming back everyday.<\/p>\n

It’s all about comfort<\/b><\/p>\n

Thirty-four percent of workers rated \u201ccomfort and familiarity\u201d as the main reason they stay at their company, according to data by Comparably<\/a>. The next most popular response was \u201ccompensation and benefits\u201d (26%).<\/p>\n

\"comfort\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The least important factors were coworkers (33%), company mission (13%), and career advancement opportunities (12%).<\/p>\n

It makes sense: leaving one job for another exposes you to a whole variety of unknowns. Unless you\u2019re completely miserable at a current job, it\u2019s often easier to stay the course than to shake things up — though \u201ceasier\u201d doesn\u2019t mean \u201cbetter.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u00a0big exception<\/b><\/p>\n

On a department level, everyone from engineers to lawyers to IT workers chose “comfort and familiarity” as number one *except* those in the executive suite. Their reason for staying at their company\u00a0was overwhelmingly “company mission.”<\/p>\n

\"executivecomfort\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The city where comfort and familiarity matters most<\/b><\/p>\n

Forty-two percent of the survey’s respondents from Dallas chose “comfort and familiarity” — a higher rate than any other city.<\/p>\n

\"dallas\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The figures above come from a May 31\u00a0reading of an ongoing query<\/a> of tech workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may be surprising to hear, but your company\u2019s noble mission isn\u2019t what keeps most people coming back everyday. It’s all about comfort Thirty-four percent of workers rated \u201ccomfort and familiarity\u201d as the main reason they stay at their company, according to data by Comparably. The next most popular response was \u201ccompensation and benefits\u201d (26%). … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,65],"tags":[63,36,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}