Caroline North, a market research manager for Seek, has been researching what Australians want from their workplaces for more than a decade. Right now, even as the world experiences monumental change, she believes our psychological motivations behind choosing a job remain much the same.
“Despite the pandemic, when we’re looking for work, we’re still attracted by the same sort of elements,” North says. “Whilst our lives were really disrupted, fundamentally as human beings, what we do and why we do it wasn’t.”