North–South satisfaction divide
Percentage of employees who don’t feel valued, by region
Workers in Wales are the most disaffected, with four in ten of them (39%) saying they don’t feel valued by their employer, closely followed by workers in the North West (38%), North East (37%), and Scotland (36%), demonstrating something of a North–South divide. By contrast, just 27% of employees in the South West said they don’t feel valued. With so many unsatisfied workers, businesses are doubtless suffering from reduced productivity levels, regardless of whether those employees move on or not. For those businesses who do lose more employees than they would expect, the additional burden of finding suitably qualified candidates and then training and integrating them into the workplace can be significant, and costly.
SCOTLAND 36%
NORTH EAST 37%
NORTH WEST 38%
YORKSHIRE & THE HUMBER 34%
EAST MIDLANDS 33%
In short, unhappy staff make for very unhappy business owners.
WEST MIDLANDS 35%
EAST OF ENGLAND 32%
WALES 39%
LONDON 34%
SOUTH EAST 33%
SOUTH WEST 27%
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