Employees within FTSE 350 companies are more likely to consider leaving their position than an employee in a non-listed company, according to a survey from Adecco.

The Adecco FTSE Worker survey sound that 70% of all employees have considered leaving their jobs in the past year, one in five FTSE employees considering leaving work have registered with a recruiter in the past 12 months, compared to one in ten non-listed respondents.

The research found that 25% of FTSE employees considering leaving work have looked at competitor websites for vacancies in the past 12 months, twice the number of non-listed respondents (12%).

The study found that 40% of all employees say it is now more difficult to get a better job than 12 months ago.

Claire Darley, chief marketing officer, Adecco Group UK  Ireland, says: "The adage that there are 'no jobs for life anymore' has never been more true. UK workers are now more mobile, more flexible, and actively hunting down the roles that they want than ever before. It's also particularly revealing that workers in FTSE companies are twice as likely to be proactively seeking new roles, perhaps indicating that positions in listed businesses no longer hold the long-term draw that they once did."

The research found that just 42% of employees are satisfied with career opportunities, and 61% of people are in pursuit of a better pay packet.
It revealed that 55% of senior managers in all companies are happy with career opportunities, and 60% satisfied with their salary. It seems that comfort may also breed boredom however, with senior managers more than four times as likely to join a recruitment agency over the past year than their non-management colleagues (27% senior management compared to 6% non-management).