--- title: See How Many of Your Co-Workers Think It Would be Easy to Get a New Job description: A Jobvite survey finds that more people think it's easier to get a new job nowadays, and more people are participating in the "gig economy." authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Career Advice - Banking - Business - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2016-03-23T15:01:32.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T11:02:23.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - Benefits - Economy - Gig Economy - health insurance - jobs market - new job - parental leave - pubdesk word_count: 394 canonical: https://money.com/how-easy-to-find-new-job/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![people working on laptops in coffee shop](https://img.money.com/2016/03/160324_car_gigeconomy.jpg) It's a mixed bag for workers and job seekers these days. About two in five said they think it’s harder to find a job today than a year ago, but one in five said it’s easier, according to recruiting software company [Jobvite’s annual Job Seeker Nation Study](http://web.jobvite.com/Q116_Website_2016JobSeekerNation_LP.html). Compared to a few years ago, that’s a marked improvement: When Jobvite asked Americans in a 2012 [survey](http://web.jobvite.com/rs/jobvite/images/Jobvite_JobSeeker_FINAL_2012.pdf?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRokvajMZKXonjHpfsX86usuXq6%2FlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4CScNqI%2FqLAzICFpZo2FFSFeKDdZRF) how they felt about their job prospects, 61% — more than three in five — said it was tougher, and a mere 13% said it was easier. About half of respondents said that they were satisfied with their current jobs but were open to switching employers, and 44% said they were optimistic about their employment prospects in the future. Younger workers, especially, were more likely to be on the move: More than two in five of those under 30 said they expect to stay in a job just one to three years. While workers' sense of job satisfaction and security might be improving lately, benefits are still elusive. Just 33% of all respondents in the new survey said they have access to a company retirement plan. Only 43% have health insurance provided by their employers, and for adults under 30, only 29% have health insurance through work. More than half of those with kids have never taken parental leave, including 52% of women. Among those who did take parental leave, nearly 90% took less than 12 weeks. With benefits scarce, it's perhaps not surprising that job seekers are relying on themselves more. Gig-economy participation is growing, Jobvite reported, with about one in five respondents saying they've worked gig-type jobs, including driving for Uber or completing chores for people via services like TaskRabbit. Among those who do, more than half consider this stringing together of one-off gigs to be their full-time work. Younger workers were more likely to report working in the gig economy, with the practice peaking among workers in their 30s. ***Read next:* 6 Words You Want in Your Job Title, and 3 You Really Don’t** As much as we hear about job-hopping millennials and the gig economy taking over, though, there are still a lot of people who are in their jobs for the long haul: 45% stay at one job for more than 10 years, and another 22% stick around for at least half a decade. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/how-easy-to-find-new-job/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Career Advice", "item": "https://money.com/career-advice/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Job Search Sites", "item": "https://money.com/job-search-sites/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "See How Many of Your Co-Workers Think It Would be Easy to Get a New Job" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/how-easy-to-find-new-job/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/how-easy-to-find-new-job/", "name": "See How Many of Your Co-Workers Think It Would be Easy to Get a New Job", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-03-23T15:01:32.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/how-easy-to-find-new-job/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/how-easy-to-find-new-job/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:02:23.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "See How Many of Your Co-Workers Think It Would be Easy to Get a New Job", "articleSection": "Career Advice", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/03/160324_car_gigeconomy.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1400, "caption": "160324_CAR_GigEconomy" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Martha C. 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