TGI Global Consumer Barometer - Issue Twenty-Five: Working nine to five

This article looks at how the residents of various countries around the world view their jobs. Do people really enjoy their work and see it as an opportunity to build a meaningful career, or is it just a means of earning money? Among the findings were that many Indians and Chinese employees see their work as a career rather than just a job, while many Germans and Russians take the opposite view.

Working nine to five

Many of us spend five days out of seven in the office, and more time with our colleagues than our families, but how much do we really enjoy our jobs? Do we see them as challenging careers with opportunities to progress or simply a way to pay the bills? With the help of the latest Global TGI data we investigate, and take a look at how opinions vary across the world (see Figure 1).

Enthusiastic employees

Of the countries studied, Uganda topped the stakes,...

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