A platform is crowded with commuters during the morning rush hour at a subway station in Seoul, in this file photo taken Dec. 20, 2021. (Yonhap)
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mentions about job transfers and quitting jobs have increased in the last three years over the pandemic, a Seoul-based PR agency said Wednesday.
KPR & Associates, Inc. conducted a big data study of 190,000 mentions about job transfers and resignations online, in which 132,000 mentions were made in 2022, doubling from 64,000 mentions in 2020.
Related keywords included working environment and corporate culture as primary factors (37 percent) for employees transferring to another job or resigning their posts.
These words were followed by welfare (24 percent), job suitability and growth potential (23 percent), and wages (16 percent).
The interest in working environment and corporate culture, in particular, surged from 31 percent in 2020. In contrast, interest in welfare (29 percent in 2020) and wages (18 percent in 2020) dropped slightly.
“The spread of work-from-home practices since the pandemic has allowed flexibility of working hours and space, leading employees to take more interest in the corporate culture that deals with the overall working environment,” KPR said.
“Employees in their 20s and 30s focus more on their individual growth than the growth of the company. If they believe their assigned work contributes to their individual growth, they will engage in their work with enthusiasm regardless of the workload.”
Ashley Song (ashley@koreabizwire.com)
