Which qualities do you value most at work?

Which qualities do you value most at work?

  • Work/Life balance

    Votes: 141 59.0%

  • Career progression

    Votes: 69 28.9%

  • A good relationship with colleagues

    Votes: 93 38.9%

  • Making money

    Votes: 148 61.9%

  • Independence

    Votes: 92 38.5%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 6.3%
  • Total voters
    239
I chose money. This is not so straight forward to answer. If a company is not paying what you are worth, bounce and find a place that will value you to your fitting - of course, be selective with the place(s) you go to; not all employers are good employers.

Lately, I have also been questioning the concept of 'loyalty to a company' and whether that still has some value these days. It almost feels like company loyalty is worth little to nothing. In practise, it does not seem like company loyalty is rewarded - i.e.: you get a bogus certificate + a few hundreds, or a few thousands of rands as a reward. If your salary slid over that timeframe (i.e: your income is 50% below the market average), was it worth it?
 
Having a boss who is not an *******. A **** boss takes years off my life
 
Die Uwe said:
Work/Life balance is a load of bull. It is a phrase that gets used by upper management to make it sound like they care, they dont give a ****.

When it is crunch time because of their poor planning then your Life balance goes out the window
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It depends on your work situation.

I moved from an average 10 to 12 hour days/permanently on call to a situation where I am NOT allowed to work more than a fixed number of hours in the year.
Largely for me to manage my own time. But it correlates to 4 days of 7am to 4:30pm and 1 day from 7am to 2pm. Even on that cycle there are about 20 days of time off catered for.
Even if I decide to work for longer hours in any given week/month there are still threshholds that I am not allowed to exceed.

Also when you are finished for the day you are uncontactable.

Compared to where I was , and where I am now I much prefer where I am now.
 
I’m well aware YMMV & more than a few okes here believe the workplace is not a place for making friends but a good energy & friendliness goes a moerse long way & will prove valuable.
 
Team work! (Hate guy riding along and getting promoted for who they know)! Phew!

Secondly, the ability to learn!
 
1am7h30n3 said:
Does it though? At the end of the day you have a stack of money in the bank and then what?
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For anyone on this forum (that work in SA), there won't be stack of money lying anywhere. There are always some expectations to catch up on.
 
surface said:
Act of making money makes you happy ? Or having money to spend as you please makes you happy? Not the same thing.
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To me it's the same thing. When someone is making money, it's automatically implied that he earns enough to spend as he pleases. Not only making some money to scrape by.
 
work/life balance and a good environment with like minded colleagues is a must for me in this industry.
I came from a extremely toxic bad **** insane boss and coworkers with blood politics and nepotism to whoever planted themselves up the bosses ass the deepest. So where I am now the freedom and respect is everything.

Everything else on that list just follows when you have those in place.
 
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