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Worker loyalty on decline, says survey

The majority of workers in Taiwan stay for less than three years on average in each job, a sign that worker loyalty is decreasing in the country, according to the results of survey released yesterday.

The survey, conducted by the Chinese-language magazine Career on 1,643 workers from Dec. 7 to Dec. 16, found that -- with the exception of civil servants, teachers and military personnel -- few workers in Taiwan have not changed jobs at some point during their working lives.

While 59.4 percent of workers change jobs at an average frequency of less than three years, those in the 16-25 age group have changed jobs more frequently than any other age group.

The survey shows that 31.5 percent of workers in the 16-25 age group have stayed for less than one year on average at each job, compared with 11 percent among workers in the 26-35 age group and 2 percent among those in the 36-45 age group.

A total of 43.5 percent of the workers have changed jobs two to three times since entering the workforce, and 29.9 percent have changed jobs four times or more, according to the survey.

A total of 11 percent of workers said that in retrospect they had discovered they had given up a good job for a bad one.

Meanwhile, 41 percent found that there was no difference between their new and old jobs.
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