{"id":931,"date":"2017-06-27T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=931"},"modified":"2017-06-27T22:29:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T22:29:23","slug":"lawyers-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/lawyers-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawyers Are Most Likely to Say Their Bosses Don&#8217;t Care About Them as People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-one percent of people who work in the\u00a0legal department of a tech company say their bosses seem to care about them as people. That was below the average of 74% overall.<\/p>\n<p>The results are from a June 26 reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/51-does-your-manager-seem-to-care-about-you-as-a-person\">ongoing query<\/a> of more than 10,000 workers across the technology\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n<p><b>Legal and communications workers aren&#8217;t feeling the love<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers in legal were nearly tied with workers in communications, 60% of whom say their bosses care about them as people. People in administrative jobs were also on the low end of the spectrum (67%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/51-does-your-manager-seem-to-care-about-you-as-a-person\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-932\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-932\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/law.png\" alt=\"law\" width=\"713\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/law-300x140.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/law.png 713w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Workers in HR, engineering, and executive positions were most likely to say their bosses care about them as people &#8212; at 78%, 77%, and 76%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><b>By gender<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Overall, 72% of women and 75% of men said they felt their bosses cared about them as people. Men in HR felt that way most\u00a0(80%) , while women in engineering and product (78% for both) showed the most enthusiasm for that statement.\u00a0Men and women in communications displayed the least enthusiasm for that statement, at 59% and 60% respectively.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/51-does-your-manager-seem-to-care-about-you-as-a-person\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-935\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-935\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/1-4.png\" alt=\"1\" width=\"743\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/1-4-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/1-4.png 743w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/51-does-your-manager-seem-to-care-about-you-as-a-person\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-936\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/2-4.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"739\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/2-4-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/2-4.png 739w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>By ethnicity<\/b><\/p>\n<p>African Americans and Asian\/Pacific Islanders were least likely to say their bossed cared about them as\u00a0people (69% and 70%). Seventy-two percent of\u00a0who marked &#8220;other&#8221; as their ethnicity said their boss seemed to care about them as a person.<\/p>\n<p>Whites and Hispanics\/Latinos showed the highest rates of thinking their boss seemed to care about them as\u00a0people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/51-does-your-manager-seem-to-care-about-you-as-a-person\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-939\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/a.png\" alt=\"a\" width=\"695\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/a-300x81.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/a.png 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-department\/51-does-your-manager-seem-to-care-about-you-as-a-person\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-938\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-938 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/b.png\" alt=\"b\" width=\"448\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/b-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/06\/b.png 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 85vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-one percent of people who work in the\u00a0legal department of a tech company say their bosses seem to care about them as people. That was below the average of 74% overall. The results are from a June 26 reading of an ongoing query of more than 10,000 workers across the technology\u00a0industry. Legal and communications workers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/lawyers-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,3],"tags":[19,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931"}],"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=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}