UAE jobs: 95% employees are looking for new opportunities, says survey

UAE jobs: 95% employees are looking for new opportunities, says survey

A whopping 95 per cent of UAE-based employees are currently open to new opportunities in the jobs market, a global survey has found.

Conducted globally by recruiter PageGroup, the parent company of Michael Page, the Talent Trends survey found that close to 70 per cent UAE-based respondents are active job-seekers. These are either currently looking for a new role or planning to do so in the next six months. A further 27 per cent are on the fence about looking elsewhere, but are waiting until the economy improves, or for the right opportunity.

The global survey covered 70,000 working adults around the world, including 625 respondents in the UAE.

Here are the key findings from the UAE report:

Looking for new opportunities now easier

About half (54 per cent) of workers in the UAE are in full-time office roles, with fully remote (11 per cent) and hybrid working models (35 per cent) increasingly becoming the norm. This means more people find it easier to look for jobs — and be contacted by recruiters — while performing their duties in the privacy of their homes.

Data suggests that the ‘great resignation’ trend is not slowing, with 2022 recording a resignation level double that of 2021 (29 per