From 25 to 39 years old, young workers live through a crucial period, with a succession of key events: they begin their business life and become financially independent, some purchase their first house and start a family, others have to take care of their parents. So many new situations that they have to face up with at the same time, and which can engender disturbances, or even real difficulties. In order to better understand the way young workers look at this crucial period and tackle the problems it brings about, Mondial Assistance decided to giving them a voice.
Thus, Ipsos carried out a survey between January 30 and February 14 among 3508 young workers, aged between 25 and 39 in seven European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, UK).
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Results in detail
Young workers show quite a good morale: 79 percent do, but in a moderate way (64 percent say their spirit is "quite" high, while only 15 percent show a "very high" spirit).
They share a strong feeling that their situation is now more difficult to cope with than it was in the past: 61 percent claim that, compared with their parents' generation, their daily life has become more difficult, and even "much more difficult" according to a third of them (32 percent)
They neither lack ideas, nor advice, but they lack time. Six out of ten young workers say they lack time (60 percent), while 38 percent lament a lack of opportunities and 30 percent a lack of energy. Some consider they lack help (14 percent), ideas (10 percent), and advice (8 percent).
Well-being and health and business life are the two main preoccupations of young workers. Their well-being and health rank first in the hierarchy (41 percent), ahead of their professional life (38 percent), their daily life and its unforeseen events (26 percent), their life at home (25 percent), formalities (18 percent) and their environment (18 percent).
They share a strong feeling that their situation is now more difficult to cope with than it was in the past: 61 percent claim that, compared with their parents' generation, their daily life has become more difficult, and even "much more difficult" according to a third of them (32 percent)
They neither lack ideas, nor advice, but they lack time. Six out of ten young workers say they lack time (60 percent), while 38 percent lament a lack of opportunities and 30 percent a lack of energy. Some consider they lack help (14 percent), ideas (10 percent), and advice (8 percent).
Well-being and health and business life are the two main preoccupations of young workers. Their well-being and health rank first in the hierarchy (41 percent), ahead of their professional life (38 percent), their daily life and its unforeseen events (26 percent), their life at home (25 percent), formalities (18 percent) and their environment (18 percent).
Work-life balance remains a challenge
Young workers encounter many difficulties: handling their spare time also is a source of problem. Respectively 62 percent and 42 percent of them declare that they find it difficult to take exercise regularly and to have a balanced diet, while public authorities remind us that these are public health imperatives. One out of two young workers (49 percent) also finds it difficult to take the time to do what they like.
Few can receive effective help from their relatives. Almost one in every three young workers even declares he could only obtain little help, or no help at all from his relatives in all the areas investigated within the framework of this survey.
In comparison with their European neighbours, few Dutch young workers consider that their daily life is more difficult than that of their parents (48 percent, against an average 61 percent for the seven countries surveyed). What is more, their morale is in good shape: 96 percent of them claim a good morale, of which 25 percent have "very good" morale. These figures are unequalled in all the other countries surveyed.
French and Italian young workers turn out to be the most fatalist in almost every investigated realm. French young wortkers are extremely disenchanted, for 78 percent of them think that their daily life is more difficult than that of their parents (against an average 61 percent for the seven countries surveyed). French young workers also are the only ones who claim as a majority that their daily life is "much more difficult" than that of their parents.
Few can receive effective help from their relatives. Almost one in every three young workers even declares he could only obtain little help, or no help at all from his relatives in all the areas investigated within the framework of this survey.
In comparison with their European neighbours, few Dutch young workers consider that their daily life is more difficult than that of their parents (48 percent, against an average 61 percent for the seven countries surveyed). What is more, their morale is in good shape: 96 percent of them claim a good morale, of which 25 percent have "very good" morale. These figures are unequalled in all the other countries surveyed.
French and Italian young workers turn out to be the most fatalist in almost every investigated realm. French young wortkers are extremely disenchanted, for 78 percent of them think that their daily life is more difficult than that of their parents (against an average 61 percent for the seven countries surveyed). French young workers also are the only ones who claim as a majority that their daily life is "much more difficult" than that of their parents.
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