Mark Dolliver: Workers Like Their Jobs!

One need only glance at the business pages to notice reasons why workers might be dissatisfied with their jobs. But when you ignore the macro factors and question individual workers, it turns out most are at least somewhat satisfied. In a poll of American workers fielded by Rasmussen Re-ports for the Hudson human-resources firm, 72 percent said they’d recommend their company “as a good place to work.” Though a majority feel they could get a comparable job elsewhere, just 17 percent are now “active job-seekers.”

Such findings are in sync with an International Herald Tribune/France 24/Harris Interactive poll fielded in the U.S.