2023 Voice of the Workforce
We were interested in exploring workers’ experiences and needs at their jobs. To do this, we asked respondents questions related to the following categories: job satisfaction, pay and rewards, career development, self- development, autonomy, resources to perform the job, meaningful work, feedback received, supervisor support, psychological safety, diversity and inclusion, burnout and work-related stress, work schedule flexibility, and intentions to quit. Experiences of Full-Time Workers
Job Satisfaction
Measures of job satisfaction can give us a pulse on employees’ general feelings about their jobs. Many factors can influence job satisfaction, but this first set of questions helped us understand general feelings of job satisfaction for our sample of workers in Oklahoma. On a five-point scale from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (5), respondents had an average score of 3.84 for job satisfaction.
When looking at job satisfaction for those who reported education level, we can see a trend that job satisfaction increases as educational attainment increases.
Figure 14. Source: OSU Center for the Future of Work, 2023 Voice of the Workforce study
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