After a steep drop in confidence last month, Australia’s workers are starting to become slightly more optimistic. That’s according to LinkedIn’s 11th Workforce Confidence Index — a fortnightly snapshot of sentiment on workers’ ability to get and keep a job, improve their financial situation and advance in their careers. Overall, despite continued concerns over career prospects, respondents scored +22 (on a scale from -100 to +100) on the index — but at +16, female workers are clearly feeling less confident than their male counterparts, who scored +27. Some 61% of female respondents reported feeling increased anxiety due to the pandemic, compared with 46% of men. When it came to working parents, almost half said they alternated duties to provide childcare during the pandemic, with two in five working non-standard hours. Their main challenge was facilitating children’s education at home (57%), followed by being unable to focus on work with kids at home (56%). Women were more likely to feel the burden of caring for children by themselves (23% compared with 14% of men), while men were more likely to feel challenged by juggling responsibilities with their partners (38% compared with 20% of women). More findings: https://lnkd.in/gY_KP3X Do these findings reflect your experiences?
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I would love to see more humans being surveyed as there are approx 12.6 million people employed in Australia? (There are around 700,000 people who note themselves as unemployed);
Relate to this ??
As sad as these stats are they have to be true. Every time I speak at an event several women come up to me after or message me later for help on overcoming low self esteem and or mental health challenges. To all of you out there, I can totally relate because I was adopted as a baby and as a result was very under confident until I became a Drill Instructor in the Marine Corps. After that 3 combat tours challenged me with PTSD but if I can overcome it and live life to the fullest you can do it. God Bless you all!
Jennifer M Campbell Following on from our discussion the other night re the future of women in the workforce, I thought you'd find this post and definitely the comments interesting behaviours.
Should not bring more migrants here as they take Australian jobs and opportunities there should be a seniority quota on Aussies who have been here for long time they should not be discriminated against
This is a timely report. Thank you
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4 年Fortunately feelings aren't the basis for our reasoning and subsequent actions. If we look at the empirical data: Men are twice as likely to kill themselves and are far less likely to complain. This is based on the 2017 Census data for Australia https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/[email protected]/Lookup/by%20Subject/3303.0~2017~Main%20Features~Intentional%20self-harm,%20key%20characteristics~3 If we assume the reported statistics you placed above are honest (which I doubt, you're clearly an extremist) we can deduce that. 1. Women are far more likely to ask and look for help. 2. Women are receiving a disproportionate amount of attention for the hardships they are suffering as they complain 10-20% more, but are half as likely to kill themselves. 3. That the feeling that they are having are clearly non where near as serious, and their feelings need to be grounded in facts. 4. We need to stop reading stupid articles like this that divide men and women, and turn them away from the real people that are in need during these hard times. These "men" aren't just an arbitrary group of enemy individuals competing for the same space as us privileged women, they are our fathers, grandfathers, sons and brothers. We need to help them.