K&H: young workers feel safe

Young workers have a rather mixed picture of their workplace: both positive and negative results are included in the K&H Youth Index, which also examined the situation of active – i.e. employed – 19-29 year-olds.

According to the research, at the end of 2024, 59 percent of working young people considered their jobs stable, which is essentially the same as the value measured in the second and third quarters of last year, but an improvement compared to the level of around 50 percent measured between 2022 and the beginning of 2024. During this measurement period, the proportion of those who feel that they have something to fear, i.e. do not consider their jobs sufficiently stable, increased to 14 percent.

The indicator reflecting the career opportunities of young people can be included among the positive results. 43 percent answered yes to the question about development and advancement opportunities at work: this is a record value in the survey’s more than decade-long history. Their proportion has increased from 29 percent measured at the end of last year quarter by quarter, and in the longer term the improvement is even more significant: before 2015, only 20-25 percent saw a chance for advancement at work. According to the latest data, there is a massive difference between young people working in the capital or county seats and those working in smaller towns: while two-thirds of the former – 66-67 percent – ​​consider their jobs stable, the latter’s rate is only 44 percent.

However, the picture is colored by the fact that many young people lack appreciation. According to the survey, in the last quarter of last year, 42 percent of them said that their bosses recognized their work. This result corresponds to the level measured in the recent period, when about a third of them felt only an average level of appreciation, while a quarter to a fifth of them felt this from their employers at all or not at all.