Almost 80% of workers would not consider changing jobs if their company respected digital disconnection

Nearly 80% of Spanish workers would stop considering changing jobs if their right to digital disconnection was respected in their company, a percentage two points higher than last year. In relation to age, this circumstance is more present in the younger generations.

This is according to the ‘2024 HR Challenges and Trends Study’ by Pluxee, an employee benefits services company, which points out that younger generations such as Generation Z (78.1%) and Millennials (68.7%) give more importance to change companies when evaluating their decision. However, this percentage decreases as age increases : this is the case for Generation X (60.8%) and Baby Boomers (53.1%).

The lack of digital disconnection – among other reasons – has led to 50% of employees feeling dissatisfied with the conciliation provided by their companies, a percentage that has worsened by eight percentage points compared to 2022. In addition, one in four workers feels that their company does not respect this right.

In line with these results, more and more companies have opted to actively work on mental health and wellbeing care strategies for their employees,  according to the Pluxee report.

In order to respond to these new needs, more than 40% of companies will pay attention to issues related to the well-being and mental health of their employees in 2024, a percentage that increases among companies with 50 to 250 employees (47.6%).

The Ministry of Labour has incorporated into the negotiation of the reduction of the working day to 37.5 hours not only the improvement of the control of the working day so that it is digitally accessible for the Labour Inspectorate, but at the end of July it added the variable of reinforcing the protection of the right to digital disconnection.