Working climate index for Germany

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The working climate index of JOB AG Personaldienstleistungen AG from Fulda shows the satisfaction of German employees at their workplace. The results of the JOB AG working climate index are available online free of charge to all media, companies and all interested parties, provided the source is given.

Creation of the working atmosphere index

Current market development and sales data are important parameters for a business location, but the subjective well-being and mood of employees in companies play a major role in the attractiveness and motivational climate at the workplace in Germany. For this reason, JOB AG Personaldienstleistungen AG decided at the beginning of 2008 to publish a quarterly index that continuously measures the working atmosphere in Germany. The motivation of JOB AG to create this index results from the content-related approach of serving both the employers ' and employees' markets as a nationwide system provider for personnel development and job management .

execution

Every quarter, TNS Emnid surveys around 2,000 working German citizens as part of a representative survey on behalf of JOB AG. On a scale from 1.0 (very bad) to 10.0 (very good), employees rate their well-being at work based on various factors. Since the surveys began in March 2008, the value has never fallen below the 7.0 mark.

methodology

Four times a year, on behalf of JOB AG , TNS Emnid asks representative workers in Germany how comfortable they feel at their workplace (“JOB AG work climate index”). The various reasons for satisfaction are also asked. From a representative sample of over 2000 people, at least 1100 employees in all federal states and all company sizes are surveyed . This corresponds to a statistically very high response rate of over 50 percent. Two main questions on a core topic are retained unchanged in order to enable a long-term comparison. They are:

  • "How comfortable do you currently feel at your workplace?" (Please rate on a scale from 1 = very poor to 10 = very good.)
  • "What is currently most influencing your well-being at work?" ( Multiple choice , i.e. selection from several factors)

In addition, there is a variable special question per quarterly survey, with which topics relevant to the labor market in Germany are asked.

Socio-demographic composition of the respondents

Around 2,000 working German citizens are surveyed by TNS Emnid every quarter. Since only employed persons were surveyed, the age groups between 20 and 59 years dominate, but this sample also includes the age group 14 to 19 and over 60 years. Pensioners, trainees, schoolchildren, students etc. were not interviewed. The largest group of respondents in terms of numbers are civil servants , employees and skilled workers. The other occupational groups are made up of self-employed , freelancers and farmers , senior civil servants and employees, as well as semi-skilled and unskilled workers .

When it comes to school education , the qualification “Further education school, without Abitur” represents the largest group of respondents, followed by “Elementary school with teaching” and “Abitur, study” . The smallest group is the sample with “elementary school without teaching” . Regarding the marital status are significantly more married than half of respondents, divorced single little less than one-third and 10 per cent, or widowed. The largest group of respondents - around a third - live in 2-person households, followed by 4-person and 3-person households. Around 16 percent live in one-person households.

The socio-demographics in Germany shows: 10 percent of those surveyed live in households with children under six, 18 percent in households with children aged six to 14. Three quarters of the respondents do not have any children under the age of 14 in the household. With regard to the breakdown by region size, respondents with places of residence in large cities, medium-sized towns or densely populated regions dominate. Only 13 percent live in places with fewer than 20,000 or even 5,000 inhabitants. In order to guarantee the representative survey, all federal states are represented proportionally according to their population and economic strength in the study: North Rhine-Westphalia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony have double-digit percentages in the number of respondents.

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