Even people who love their jobs will probably have a complaint about it every once in a while, but at some workplaces, there’s a lot more to complain about. In honor of Human Resource Professional Day on September 26th, a new survey of human resource professionals reveals the biggest challenges facing the workforce today and feeling underpaid tops the list.
According to the poll of 1,000 HR pros:
- Nearly a third (29%) say the most common thing workers at their company are not satisfied with is their salary. Feeling unappreciated is a close second with 26%, followed by poor work-life balance (25%) and lack of career advancement opportunities (24%).
- The issues that get brought to the HR department most often are related to poor communication (44%), rule violations (40%), toxic negativity (38%) and gossip (37%).
- As for the top challenges those in HR face, training and upskilling talent is number one (39%), followed by finding the right talent (36%), dealing with workplace etiquette issues (31%) and mediating romance-related conflicts (20%).
- Dealing with all of this may be why only 9% of HR professionals finish their daily to-do list.
- As a result, 42% work off-hours, 28% feel overwhelmed by their workload and they estimate they’d have to outsource 31% of their work to get it all done effectively.
- Corporate America looks to HR to solve a range of problems and 41% of the HR pros surveyed say a lot of the interpersonal issues they’re asked to solve would shock the average person.
- One respondent says they had to “prevent strange rituals in a colleague’s office,” several had to deal with employees bringing unconventional pets, like snakes or big reptiles, to work without permission, and one had to handle reports that the office was haunted, which led to requests for office exorcisms.
- So, it’s not surprising that 30% of HR pros feel mentally drained, 24% are burned out and 34% are considering changing careers.
Source: SWNS Digital