Ninety per cent of working professionals polled in a survey within the Middle East and North Africa feel optimistic about 2022 as job prospects and optimism within the labour market enhance on the again of financial development, regardless of pandemic-induced headwinds, in line with a brand new survey.About 85 per cent of respondents imagine the brand new yr will deliver many adjustments of their skilled and private lives, revealed a survey by jobs portal Bayt.com. It polled 3,395 respondents in international locations just like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and Bahrain, amongst others, from November 11 to December 15, 2021.Fifty-six per cent of respondents stated discovering a brand new job was their high career-related decision for 2022. Twenty-one per cent stated receiving a promotion or a wage enhance was their high decision, whereas 21 per cent picked studying new abilities at work and a pair of per cent cited bettering relationships with colleagues and managers.“Our new survey clearly exhibits that almost all Mena professionals aren’t solely up for a problem subsequent yr, however worth it as a technique to enrich their skilled and private lives,” Ola Haddad, director of human sources at Bayt.com, stated.“In truth, getting a brand new job is amongst professionals’ high New Year’s resolutions and lots of professionals will start 2022 with nice aspirations.”About 43 per cent of companies within the UAE plan to extend salaries in 2022 by a median of 3 per cent, in line with a report by recruitment company Cooper Fitch this month.The Cooper Fitch UAE Salary Guide 2022, which polled greater than 600 corporations within the UAE, discovered that 35 per cent of companies plan to extend salaries from zero per cent to five per cent, whereas 4 per cent of corporations will supply employees a increase between 6 per cent and 9 per cent, and 5 per cent will increase wages by 10 per cent or extra.About 37 per cent of organisations stated they didn’t plan to make any adjustments to salaries subsequent yr, the Cooper Fitch analysis discovered.A separate report by Mercer final month discovered that employers within the UAE will go on a hiring spree in 2022 and lift salaries by a median 3.6 per cent as demand for jobs picks up amid the UAE’s post-coronavirus financial restoration.Attracting and retaining employees may even require an elevated deal with versatile working insurance policies reminiscent of hybrid or distant working, Mercer stated in its 2021 Total Remuneration Survey.While in search of new jobs in 2022, 86 per cent of respondents will spend extra time in search of distant jobs, 76 per cent will use on-line job websites, 14 per cent picked firm web sites, 6 per cent selected social media, whereas 2 per cent will go for on-line job gala’s, the Bayt.com survey revealed.Eighty per cent of these surveyed stated they have been happy with their skilled and private development through the previous yr.One technique to obtain skilled targets at work is thru an appraisal, in line with the Bayt.com analysis. About 67 per cent of Mena professionals stated they’ve year-end value determinations at their firm whereas 20 per cent don’t. Additionally, 87 per cent of professionals stated that year-end value determinations at work are useful.About 65 per cent of working professionals within the Mena area recognized saving cash as the preferred private decision, 21 per cent picked exercising and following a nutritious diet, 9 per cent selected spending extra time with family and friends, whereas 6 per cent cited taking extra holidays, the survey discovered.Updated: December twenty seventh 2021, 10:05 AM
90% of Mena employees feel optimistic about 2022, survey finds
