According to the latest CBOS survey, in May employees improved their assessments of the situation in their workplaces and forecasts for the coming year. According to the authors of the study, the improvement may be related to the traditional increase in demand for seasonal work.

Compared to the previous month, there were 3% more positive assessments of the current situation in workplaces. In the first half of May, 63% of workers positively assessed the current situation in their workplaces. Every fourth respondent stated that the situation in their workplace was “neither good nor bad”, and every tenth assessed it negatively. 2% of the respondents declined to take a position on this issue.

According to CBOS, this is probably related to the seasonal improvement in moods, as a similar change was recorded in May last year and recently so many employees positively assessed the current situation in their workplaces in June and July 2021.

60% of workers predict that the situation in their workplaces will not change over the next year. Among the rest, much more people expect its improvement (18%) than deterioration (15%). Those who forecast changes generally do not think they are definite. 7% were unable to express their forecasts in this respect or did not want to disclose them.

77% of the respondents declared that they do not take into account the possibility of losing their current job (dismissal, bankruptcy/liquidation of the workplace, farm, etc.). The results are similar to the April poll, with a significant increase in May in the proportion of respondents who consider losing their current job an unlikely event.

The survey was carried out from May 2 to 12 this year. on a sample of 1,087 people (including: 58.9% using the CAPI method, 28.7% – CATI and 12.4% – CAWI).

Arkadiusz Słomczyński