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HR pros happiest despite mounting workload: Study
the happiest lot in the country, even as they face mountingworkload, a latest study says.
According to the latest 'Happiness at Work Index survey' by international recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark, about 94 percent of human resource professionals insist they are still happy in their role, despite facing mountingworkload and bleak career outlooks.
The current level of optimism at 94 percent is much higher compared to 76 percent seen three months ago, the studystates, but does not mention the reason for it.
Interestingly, it states that the optimism persists despite the fact that the sector has witnessed the highest increase in work pressure since the start of 2008 among allother industries surveyed.
Work has increase manifold primarily due to the current global credit crunch. Within the H.R. sector itself the highworkload forced many to put in their papers.
According to the report, about 88 percent of H.R.
respondents believe their workload had gone up, with one in four (25 percent) saying it had increased by the equivalentof an extra day per week.
Meanwhile, nearly one in three (29 percent) have handed in their notice as a direct result of rising workloads. But almost as many are taking a more pragmatic approach by delegating a lot more tasks in an attempt to deal with thesituation, the survey revealed.
According to the report, the rising workloads may be one of the key drivers behind plummeting levels of career confidence among H.R. professionals, as over half (56 percent) of the respondents said they were less confident about theircareer than at the start of the year.
"The results of the Index this time around are particularly revealing for H.R. workers. It seems the job is becoming very labour intensive. When it comes to career prospects, confidence is dropping fast," Badenoch & Clark'sAllison Gray said.
The key message for employers is to not misread the unprecedented high levels of happiness for long-term genuine engagement. H.R. as a profession is facing some very serious challenges at the moment, and employers need to be seen to betackling those challenges head on," Gray added.
Happiness at Work Index was launched in early 2007 as a quarterly survey of U.K. office workers. It is used to track happiness at work over time based upon a series of standard questions. In addition, each quarter questions are asked aboutvarious aspects of working life.
The sample for this version of the index was 1,086 workersin the U.K.
According to the latest 'Happiness at Work Index survey' by international recruitment consultancy Badenoch & Clark, about 94 percent of human resource professionals insist they are still happy in their role, despite facing mountingworkload and bleak career outlooks.
The current level of optimism at 94 percent is much higher compared to 76 percent seen three months ago, the studystates, but does not mention the reason for it.
Interestingly, it states that the optimism persists despite the fact that the sector has witnessed the highest increase in work pressure since the start of 2008 among allother industries surveyed.
Work has increase manifold primarily due to the current global credit crunch. Within the H.R. sector itself the highworkload forced many to put in their papers.
According to the report, about 88 percent of H.R.
respondents believe their workload had gone up, with one in four (25 percent) saying it had increased by the equivalentof an extra day per week.
Meanwhile, nearly one in three (29 percent) have handed in their notice as a direct result of rising workloads. But almost as many are taking a more pragmatic approach by delegating a lot more tasks in an attempt to deal with thesituation, the survey revealed.
According to the report, the rising workloads may be one of the key drivers behind plummeting levels of career confidence among H.R. professionals, as over half (56 percent) of the respondents said they were less confident about theircareer than at the start of the year.
"The results of the Index this time around are particularly revealing for H.R. workers. It seems the job is becoming very labour intensive. When it comes to career prospects, confidence is dropping fast," Badenoch & Clark'sAllison Gray said.
The key message for employers is to not misread the unprecedented high levels of happiness for long-term genuine engagement. H.R. as a profession is facing some very serious challenges at the moment, and employers need to be seen to betackling those challenges head on," Gray added.
Happiness at Work Index was launched in early 2007 as a quarterly survey of U.K. office workers. It is used to track happiness at work over time based upon a series of standard questions. In addition, each quarter questions are asked aboutvarious aspects of working life.
The sample for this version of the index was 1,086 workersin the U.K.
