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60 Percent of Australia‘s Knowledge Workers Are Ready to Quit Their Jobs — How Leaders Can Respond.

Recent Slack survey results suggest that the desire for flexible work options is fundamental to the war for talent.

Steve Glaveski
3 min readOct 7, 2021

According to a recent remote work survey from Slack, almost 60 percent of Australians are considering moving to a new role within the next 12 months.

A disconnect between employees, managers, and executives is blamed for this global trend, with 44 percent of executives hoping to return to the office full-time compared with just 17 percent of lower-level employees.

Almost one-third of Australian workers say that they would like to work whenever, wherever, with no restraints whatsoever on their schedule — higher than any other market.

This all suggests that unless remote or hybrid work is accommodated, we are indeed on the brink of a ‘great resignation’, leaving today’s executives…

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Steve Glaveski
Steve Glaveski

Written by Steve Glaveski

CEO of Collective Campus. HBR writer. Author of Time Rich, and Employee to Entrepreneur. Host of Future Squared podcast. Occasional surfer.

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