Just a fifth (22 per cent) of global employees strongly agree their job is safe from elimination, according to a new survey by ADP Inc.
The survey, which polled more than 39,000 global employees, found workers who felt their jobs were safe were six-times more likely to be fully engaged on the job, 3.3-times more likely to say they were highly productive and two-times more likely to say they have no intention of leaving.
While just a fifth of individual contributors (18 per cent) and frontline managers (21 per cent) strongly agreed their job was safe from elimination, the percentage increases among middle managers (23 per cent), upper managers (31 per cent) and C-suite executives (35 per cent).
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Only 18 per cent of workers aged 55 to 64 and 19 per cent of workers aged 65-plus strongly agreed they have the skills needed to advance, compared to roughly a third of workers aged 18 to 26 years old (29 per cent) and workers aged 27 to 39 years old (30 per cent).
Notably, more than half (53 per cent) of workers who said their employer is investing in them also said they’re fully engaged at work, compared to just 12 per cent of employees who said their employer doesn’t invest in them.
A fifth (20 per cent) of workers aged 18 to 26 strongly agree artificial intelligence will positively impact their job in the next year, a percentage that decreases among workers aged 40 to 54 (15 per cent) and employees aged 55 to 64 (10 per cent).
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