June 25th, 2012
Surveys for Money and More: Dewar's Report
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For more than 10 years, the Dewar's White Label advertisements have profiled the career achievements of talented men and women in business, science, the arts, the humanities, and other professions. And as I learned at this excellent post
The company is now taking a more active role in charting the course of the job market by reporting on members of specific professions. Dewar's will issue a series of surveys presenting employees' opinions of their work, training, and career paths, in addition to their life-styles and aspirations. The company says the reports are intended "to help people, particularly young people, make career decisions."
The first one, Profile of Computer Professionals, is based on telephone interviews with 301 active members of six different computer professions. These people are educators, systems analysts, programmers, consultants, entrepreneurs, and computer sales or marketing personnel. The study, conducted for Dewar's by Research & Forecasts Inc., New York, covers a variety of topics including career and job satisfaction, professional aspirations, motivations and rewards, views on where the field is heading, and advice to those considering pursuing a computer career.
Another section contains eight in-depth profiles of successful people with different jobs in the field. While the respondents are mostly white (94%), male (86%), and married (73%), there is a good mix of professions and, indeed, an interesting variety of questions.
The first question respondents were asked deals with job satisfaction. On the whole, says the study, computer professionals were "overwhelmingly satisfied" with their jobs. Seventy percent of the group claimed they were very satisfied with their current positions, 24% were somewhat satisfied, 4% were not very satisfied, and only 2% were very dissatisfied. The survey then breaks down the issue by work category. Entrepreneurs were most satisfied, while systems analysts were the least.
Another question tackles the issue of work complaints. Paperwork and bureaucracy garnered 42% and the number one spot on the employee hit list. The next biggest complaint (12%) was pressure and long hours, followed by lack of financial rewards (9%).
One interesting query categorized the different types of personnel by the degree to which they were committed to their jobs, in terms of time and intensity. At one end of this spectrum are "computerholdics"--those people (22%) who devote at least 50 hours a week to their jobs, often work weekends, and function in a work environment they themselves describe as "extremely hectic." At the opposite end are the "nine-to-fivers" (21%), who devote 40 hours a week or less to their jobs, hardly ever work weekends, and describe their work environments as "generally steady or relaxed." Wedged between these groups is the category most respondents fall into: the "overtimers" (57%). Overtimers spend 41 to 49 hours a week, sometimes work weekends, and claim their environments is "moderately hectic."
The company is now taking a more active role in charting the course of the job market by reporting on members of specific professions. Dewar's will issue a series of surveys presenting employees' opinions of their work, training, and career paths, in addition to their life-styles and aspirations. The company says the reports are intended "to help people, particularly young people, make career decisions."
The first one, Profile of Computer Professionals, is based on telephone interviews with 301 active members of six different computer professions. These people are educators, systems analysts, programmers, consultants, entrepreneurs, and computer sales or marketing personnel. The study, conducted for Dewar's by Research & Forecasts Inc., New York, covers a variety of topics including career and job satisfaction, professional aspirations, motivations and rewards, views on where the field is heading, and advice to those considering pursuing a computer career.
Another section contains eight in-depth profiles of successful people with different jobs in the field. While the respondents are mostly white (94%), male (86%), and married (73%), there is a good mix of professions and, indeed, an interesting variety of questions.
The first question respondents were asked deals with job satisfaction. On the whole, says the study, computer professionals were "overwhelmingly satisfied" with their jobs. Seventy percent of the group claimed they were very satisfied with their current positions, 24% were somewhat satisfied, 4% were not very satisfied, and only 2% were very dissatisfied. The survey then breaks down the issue by work category. Entrepreneurs were most satisfied, while systems analysts were the least.
Another question tackles the issue of work complaints. Paperwork and bureaucracy garnered 42% and the number one spot on the employee hit list. The next biggest complaint (12%) was pressure and long hours, followed by lack of financial rewards (9%).
One interesting query categorized the different types of personnel by the degree to which they were committed to their jobs, in terms of time and intensity. At one end of this spectrum are "computerholdics"--those people (22%) who devote at least 50 hours a week to their jobs, often work weekends, and function in a work environment they themselves describe as "extremely hectic." At the opposite end are the "nine-to-fivers" (21%), who devote 40 hours a week or less to their jobs, hardly ever work weekends, and describe their work environments as "generally steady or relaxed." Wedged between these groups is the category most respondents fall into: the "overtimers" (57%). Overtimers spend 41 to 49 hours a week, sometimes work weekends, and claim their environments is "moderately hectic."
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