As businesses struggle to find and retain staff, employees rate a lack of skills development and lack of career progression as their top frustrations in the workplace.
The 2024 Kelly Global RE: Work Report surveyed 5,500 businesses and staff across 13 countries, with executives in Australia acknowledging the top 3 reasons employees leave are because of a lack of career progression, lack of flexibility, and lack of skills development.
Kelly Managing Director Pete Hamilton says the results are eye-opening and Australian businesses should heed warnings to drastically improve, with Australia also ranking last when it came to a resilient workforce, behind Hungry, Poland and Ireland, with Norway, Germany and Sweden taking out the top 3, followed by India, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK and USA.
The report found:
- 49 percent of Australian businesses are struggling to find and retain staff.
- The return to the office has actually had a negative impact on workplace culture in Australia.
- Australians are most likely to say the organisation they work for has poor leadership skills.
- Australian workers rate their top frustrations as a lack of skills development opportunities (32%) followed by a lack of career progression (32%).
- Executives say the top 3 reasons employees leave are because of a lack of career progression, lack of flexibility, and lack of skills development opportunities
- Australian businesses lag behind other nations when it comes to diversity, equality and inclusion.
