Better compensation and benefits (18 percent).<\/li>\nIn the online survey, respondents checked all circumstances that were among the reasons they left previous jobs. The percentages add up to more than 100 because people have been in more than one of these circumstances during their careers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
These lists seem to come out on a regular basis with different results.\u00a0 Yet, I’m a sucker for a list so I read them.\u00a0 The one consistent piece of information I read is that compensation is often overrated.\u00a0 People may say they changed jobs for a better compensation package, but usually it is some other factor driving them out of their current job.\u00a0 I’m not sure that holds up well in sales. The top reasons people have changed jobs: Downsizing or restructuring (54 percent); Sought new challenges or opportunities (30 percent); Ineffective leadership (25 percent); Poor relationship with manager (22 percent); To improve work\/life balance (21 percent); Contributions to the… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23,5,22],"tags":[732,733,1766,1765],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retention","category-trends","category-turnover","tag-job-change","tag-reason-for-job-change","tag-retention","tag-turnover"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-pQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":136,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/2006-salary-report\/","url_meta":{"origin":1602,"position":0},"title":"2006 Salary Report","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"June 27, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"From S&MM Magazine (sorry, no link): The benefits of an improving economy trickled down to a lot of paychecks in 2006. 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That's according\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Compensation"","block_context":{"text":"Compensation","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/compensation\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":443,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/one-of-them-must-be-wrong\/","url_meta":{"origin":1602,"position":4},"title":"One of Them Must Be Wrong","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"November 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"A quote from my post on Tuesday: And don't assume its about money. When someone quits her job, 89 percent of managers assume it was over money, whereas 91 percent of the workers who quit say it was anything but, Murphy said. 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