New study lifts the lid on ‘invisible revolution’ amongst UAE workforce

New study lifts the lid on ‘invisible revolution’ amongst UAE workforce

UAE: A global survey of almost 70,000 working adults has uncovered seismic shifts in employee attitudes and motivations, with 90% of global respondents and a whopping 95% of UAE respondents saying they are currently open to new opportunities in the jobs market.

Conducted globally by FTSE 250 recruiter PageGroup, the parent company of Michael Page, Talent Trends is the largest study of skilled, white-collar professionals of its kind to date. Of the 625 respondents in the UAE, over half (68%) said they are active job seekers, either currently looking for a new role or planning to look in the next six months. A further 27% are on the fence about looking elsewhere and are not ruling it out but are waiting until the economy improves or for the right opportunity to arise.

Interestingly for employers, these figures suggest that companies cannot confidently rely on most people in their current workforce to be retained this year. To compound these concerns, new joiners are almost equally likely to be open to new opportunities as their more tenured counterparts, with more than half of those who started their job as recently as 2022 considered ‘active job seekers’.

This 'Invisible Revolution' is not a flash in the