Report notes high turnover in migrant work

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Report notes high turnover in migrant work

(Xinhua) 20:06, October 10, 2013

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An annual report on China's human resources lays bare the rapidity with which Chinese migrant workers have been switching their jobs.

Published on Thursday by the Social Sciences Academic Press, the 2013 edition of the Annual Report on the Development of China's Human Resources showed that half of migrant workers had changed their jobs within the past 1.75 years, and 25 percent had done so over the past seven months.

According to the report, jobs for the country's migrant workers last two years on average, with an eight-month interval between two jobs.

The figures were based on a survey conducted by the working salary research center under the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security. It targeted 300-plus small-scale enterprises in the provinces of Sichuan, Liaoning, Hubei and Hunan, where only 55 percent of employees had stayed for two years or longer.

Meanwhile, the report noted that 41 percent of Chinese college graduates from 2011 left their jobs within only half a year after graduation, up seven percentage points year on year.

"The stability of a job is a key factor for the quality of employment," said the report, adding that frequently changing jobs reveals employees' dissatisfactions and also affects the accumulative cost of human resources.

According to the report, jobs suffering a high turnover rate usually involve grassroots workers at labor-intensive industries as the posts require low professional levels and may be easily filled.

"It indicates that employers haven't done enough to keep their employees and that growing living costs are forcing low-income and low-technology groups to seek higher salaries or life in less expensive regions," wrote the report's authors.

（Editor：WangXin、Liang Jun）