According to the PwC Inter-Americas 2022 Regional Workforce Hopes and Fears Survey, one in three workers in Central America and the Dominican Republic say they are likely to change employers in the next 12 months in search of better pay and satisfying work. .
“The great resignation will continue at a good pace in the coming year as the pressure for better pay continues to accumulate,” showed the survey applied to more than 155 workers in Panama, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. .
According to the survey, 37% of workers surveyed plan to ask their employer for more money in the next 12 months. It points out that while a salary increase is one of the main motivators for making a job change (95%), wanting a satisfying job (95%) and wanting to truly be themselves at work (94%) are also part of the three main factors that workers look for in their work environment.
In that sense, the labor consultant and economist, René Quevedo, stated that we are in a process of reconstruction, “unfortunately the economic reactivation that we have is due to the external sector, copper exports, Minera Panama, the ports, the Canal, but the The domestic sector remains depressed, because basically there has been no strategy for economic reactivation and employment”.
Quevedo commented that there is a drop in the number of people who earn more than $2,000, which represents a depression in salary matters.
“Many people will make the decision to quit their jobs to engage in entrepreneurship, because the economy is not creating jobs, that is the reality,” he said.
