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“That’s It, I Quit!” – A Survey Report towards Indonesian’s Resign Habit

Quitting from a job or widely known as “resign” apparently is a common view in many countries in this world, particularly in developing countries. How about in Indonesia? Therefore, regarding to this matter, recently Jakpat has conducted a survey in order to see some habit and preferences toward “resign from the job” among Indonesian. This survey involved 1876 respondents from across Indonesia. For the further notes, Jakpat’s respondents in this survey are Indonesian smart-phone users, with a range of age from 25 to 45 year-old.

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This survey report is divided into four chapters. The first chapter contains general information regarding to Indonesian’s resign habit. This chapter is divided into two parts. First of all, in the first part we can see the background of our respondents regarding their current job description. Apparently, many of our respondents (47.39%) are currently having a permanent work, while some other are having a freelance job (20.84%) or contract job (19.78%). Hence at their current workplace, most of them work as permanent staff (40.62%), while some other work as a freelancer (21.22%) or temporary staff (14.61%). Regarding to the kind of institution they currently work at, more than half of our respondents (52.99%) admit that they work at private corporation, while some other work at home industry (17.38%) or public institution (11.51%).

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In the second part of the first chapter, we can see that most of our respondents (63.70%) admit that the job they have currently is not their first job. Hence, admitted by most of our respondents (66.04%), they have ever resigned from their previous job. Furthermore, more than half of our respondents (52.06%) admit that they have ever resigned for about 1 to 3 times before, while many other (40.84%) have ever resigned for only one time before.

Next, the second chapter of this survey report contains the consideration that Indonesian have regarding to resign from their job. There are top six considerations that we find, including salary (65.13%), career advancement (57.06%), work environment (47.46%), personal situation (28.41%), office’s location (24.62%), and position at workplace (22.20%). In addition to that, the personal situation includes “following partner or family moving out of town” (33.24%), “having some affairs with colleague” (28.98%), and “internal conflict at workplace” (28.69%).

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The third chapter of this survey report contains some information regarding to what finally lead our respondents to the decision of resigning from their job. There are top six reasons that make them resign, including “feeling uncomfortable with the work environment” (46.65%), “got another job offer with better salary” (42.70%), “searching for better job position” (40.92%), “unsatisfied with the rewards or appreciation of their contributions” (36.16%), “unsatisfied with the leadership of senior management” (30.27%), and “concern about the lack of opportunities for advancement” (23.00%). Furthermore, before deciding to resign, apparently our respondents have worked at their workplace for about 1 to 2 years (37.13%), even for less than a year (24.70%), or for about 2 to 3 years (17.19%).

In the last chapter of this survey report, we gather some trivia regarding to the resign habit of Indonesian. We find that among respondents who have ever resigned before, more than half of them (50.69%) usually tell their real reason when they resign from their job, while the other less than half of them (49.31%) admit that they use another reason just for formality. Among respondents who have ever resigned before, we also find that most of them (64.73%) have ever resigned from their job without having any job replacement yet, and they usually get their new job after about 1 to 3 months (42.14%), less than a month (23.44%), or even about 3 to 6 months (18.45%). Lastly, out of all respondents, we find that some of them (39.87%) admit that they consider resigning from their current job.

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For more detail you can download XLS report at the button below (Bahasa Indonesia). JAKPAT report consists of 3 parts which are 1) Respondent Profile, 2) Crosstabulation for each question and 3) Raw Data. Respondent profile shows you demographic profiles ( gender,age range, location by province, and monthly spending). Cross tabulation enables you to define different demographic segment preference on each answer.

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