Broken promises? | Workers are quitting jobs because the reality didn't match their expectations

With any job description, transparency is key.

While recruiters need to be clear on what's being offered, they also need to use their writing skills to entice the right candidates, and hopefully make the hire of their dreams. However, there's been a rise in employees quitting because they don't feel the job matched up to what they were promised, whether that's the work environment, the role itself, the hours or the location...

New research from pre-hire assessment specialists ThriveMap reveals 55% of UK employees surveyed quit a job because it didn’t meet their expectations. And it's a number that's on the rise. In the same survey back in 2019, the figure was 48%, indicating that the lack of balance between job descriptions and reality is widening.

The top culprit when it came to not matching up to expectations was job responsibilities, followed by work environment, hours, salary and location.