New Year, New Job - What Motivates Workers To Make A Switch

The anticipation of a new year fuels desires of renewal. At the forefront of these thoughts and aspirations is health and wellness. Joining a gym, committing to eating better, and spending more time with family and friends top New Year's resolutions lists every year.

So does looking for a new a new job.

Because the end of the year implies conclusion, it's the one time of the year that busy professionals can reflect and evaluate their current employment situation. 

For those who work in companies that provide annual performance reviews, it's not just the season to be jolly, but the season to find a reason to stay in their current work situation, or contemplate other, more viable options. 

The reasons for this motivation usually revolves around issues of viability, as LinkedIn discovered and documented in a recent survey.

Job viability = work/career satisfaction. Workers become motivated to make a switch when company's don't motivate them to stay. Studies show that one's duration of employment run's parallel with how sustainable they find their jobs.

Work that is not sustainable (i.e., inequitable or intolerable) results in disengagement and ultimately, job dissatisfaction that places a new job, in the new year, at the top of the Christmas list for many professionals who want and deserve better.