STREAM Newsletter 6

In the four-year STREAM cohort, 74% of employees did not switch jobs. 8% of employees changed job, in 40% of cases this was also a change in occupational sector. 19% of employees changed job position within the same organization. In the figure below the frequency at which several reasons for job change were reported is presented.

The categories ‘job tasks ceased to exist’ and ‘fired / contract not extended’ were coupled under ‘forced’ reasons for job change and ‘looking for a new challenge’ was labeled ‘voluntary’. Interestingly, the extent to which these reasons were reported showed different patterns between different age groups.

Here we see that especially the youngest group of employees reported changing jobs for financial reasons and due to dissatisfaction with job characteristics. On the other hand, older employees more often reported health reasons. Furthermore, whereas younger employees more often report voluntary job change as compared to older employees, older employees more often report forced job change.

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