Should I stay or should I go: Is staying put the key to a happier work life?

Is it true that in order for you contemporary views, satisfying work and the fitting work/life steadiness you have to be ready to leap from employer to employer each few years?

Latest analysis by Monster discovered full-time staff who change jobs obtain a median 5.2 per cent enhance in wage, and with greater than half of British staff having three or extra careers by the point they hit 55, there may be much less and fewer stigma connected to a CV which reveals a historical past of job hopping.

Nonetheless, dig beneath these top-line figures and the image is rather less easy.

In line with 2023 analysis by LinkedIn, job-hopping continues to be perceived extra negatively than positively by hiring managers, with 35 per cent saying it reveals a scarcity of dedication versus solely 19 per cent who imagine it’s a good way to achieve expertise.

So what if there have been a means of attaining job satisfaction and selection with out the upheaval and stress of beginning over with a brand new employer? One firm thinks it has solved the issue.

JTI UK says it presents its folks a profession the place “curiosity is inspired”. The agency promotes inside strikes and prides itself on making a supportive atmosphere for these on secondment to different groups.

Final yr, greater than 170 JTI employees made an inside transfer, a few of whom completely transferred to a different market, and practically 100 took some sort of secondment.

The agency’s common worker tenure of practically 10 years suggests they’re doing one thing proper in taking this method.

Vikki Moore, pictured above, joined JTI in 2019. Final yr she was supplied one of many firm’s Quick Time period Task (STA) preparations to cowl the household go away of a colleague, changing into provide chain supervisor of JTI Eire for seven months.

She returned to her common function this spring, however quickly afterwards took on one other totally different task – operational planning supervisor for JTI, globally.

Moore mentioned she was by no means made to really feel responsible for leaving her present crew “within the lurch”, including “you by no means get that feeling from anybody right here – everybody’s supportive to go for brand spanking new alternatives”.

She mentioned: “I really feel like I’ve grown rather a lot as a person since I’ve been at JTI. I simply really feel like a unique individual – to not sound tacky, however I simply really feel much more assured in myself and my work and my means to carry out.”

Her colleague Peter Kelleher, pictured above, has been with JTI for 13 years, throughout roles in gross sales, advertising and ecommerce: “I most likely didn’t count on to be at JTI this lengthy, however I suppose that’s a testomony to what place it’s to work,” he says.

Final yr, he labored remotely with the Asia crew to assist launch a brand new product throughout 4 markets within the area, all with out having to relocate which might have disrupted his younger household.

Kelleher mentioned: “JTI supplies a wealth of alternatives to study, whether or not that is precise assets or on-the-job alternatives. There’s all the time a number of motion internally, new roles, secondments and even working throughout totally different tasks.”

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