This month, I was staggered to read the results of a July 2017 Employee Survey conducted by a company named Citation, which revealed that 50% of full or part-time workers in the UK want to leave their current job in the next 12 months.

OK, they only asked 2000 people, and only a percentage may have been Engineers, but when we're being told that there are very few people looking for jobs (which is a fact actually, by the way) reading that 50% want to quit their job is a surprise.

So, why? For two in five workers, it’s salaries that’s forcing them to look elsewhere – this is most likely to be the key driver for 18 to 34-year-olds. Furthermore, those aged between 18 and 24 are most likely to jump ship (64%), and men are 10% more likely to leave than women.

Apart from Salary, Better career prospects (22%), drab company cultures (16%), dislike of managers (11%) and loathing of their job (10%) were other reasons given for wanting to leave.

So now we know what they hated about their present job. What are they looking for in their next job? The 2000 asked for:

• Salary (41%)
• Location (19%)
• Flexibility (14%)
• Career development (14%)
• Company values/culture (14%)
• Employee reward schemes/company benefits (2%).

These figures contradict the previous ideas that "benefits, being developed and appreciated are just as important as salary." If we believe these latest trends, it's all "Show Me The Money!"

Of course, it depends who you ask. If you stand outside a merchant bank and ask the brokers what they want, you might get "salary" most times. If you stand outside a steelworks, you'll get "a secure job with a pension please." And then, it's easy to say you're unhappy with a job so you might quit-- it's another thing to do it.

But, interesting reading all the same, and if 50% of you really do want to quit your job, give me a call.