More Than 50% Of Fashion And Retail Workers Dislike Their Jobs
Out of the 1,300 fashion and retail professionals who participated in the survey, less than half (48%) reported being satisfied with their current positions, and 86% said they're open to making a career move in the next year.
Job satisfaction and loyalty were also low last year.
The survey included workers for fashion and retail companies — of those who participated, 6% are executives, 29% are managers, 65% are "non-manegerial talent," and 22% are freelancers.
Stylelist notes that a quickly changing industry could partly be to blame. Celeste Gudas, president of 24 Seven, told Stylelist that e-commerce is creating a "very disruptive time" for the fashion and retail industries, and an ISEM Fashion Business School professor said last year that the industry was in a "crisis" because of uncertainty with global supply chains.
There is good news, though — compensation is on the rise: 77% of those surveyed reported an increase in compensation, with a median increase of 6%. The rise in compensation suggests that something other than money is leading workers to be dissatisfied with their jobs.