STUDY: Your Employees Probably Don't Like You

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Don’t take it too personally, though: you’re definitely not the only one.

CreativeLive’s inaugural jobs report should probably serve as a wake-up call to your corporate clients. The basic conclusion: Americans aren’t happy at their jobs, and they don’t much care for their employers. The reason? They want to be more creative.

Some key numbers after the jump.

  • 19% of employed Americans are working in jobs they took out of necessity, and the same number would prefer jobs in which they could feel more creative
  • In fact, 36% want to leave their current jobs for something more creative
  • 29% would even take a pay cut to do so

Back to the point about your “corporate” clients:

  • 40% of employed Americans want to jump off that big-name ship

This is even more true among Millennials:

  • They face a higher degree of underemployment (12%) than any other generation…
  • But a near-majority (47%) detest working in...
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