Retention | Number of UK workers looking to leave job rises by 13% in a year

The number of UK employees looking to stay in their current job has fallen sharply over the past 12 months, according to the latest Gartner research.

The firm’s Global Talent Monitor report found that 23% of employees indicated a low intent to stay with their current employer, a 13% increase from this time last year and ten per cent higher than the current global average (13%).

These findings indicate that the ongoing uncertainty around Brexit has had little impact on both workers’ desire for job stability or company assessments of their economic prospects.

Employees ranked work-life balance, job location and stability as their top attributes when considering an employer. The UK also reported the highest business confidence rating of all European countries surveyed at 60 – which is above the global average of 57.