Agency Faktor plus How much do we work

In November 2006, a marketing and public opinion research agency “Faktor Plus” conducted a survey How much do we work? on a sample of 1500 adults. The survey revealed the bipolar division of the population into “those which are actually employed and work and those who still live in the time when each job was permanent, and no particular effort was required in order to keep the job.”  

-          70,3% of examinees answered that Serbia in general was not a country of hard work.
-          As to their personal engagement, 20% of examinees answered that they work much. The other answers are: sufficiently (27.6%), insufficiently (26.5%), plus 19,4% of the unemployed. A small number answered that they do not work although they were employed.
-          The expression about work which corresponds best to our mentality is: “a lot of money, yet little work”, and for a certain number of examinees “a little money, a little work”. The smallest number of examinees agrees with the expression: “a lot of money, a lot of work”.
-          The majority of employees are depressed and annoyed, some are even angry, while a very small number is ambitious.
-          When asked whether inactivity had some connection with the bad economic situation, the subjects answered:

26,8%: not at all
45,8%: yes, but that is not the only reason
12,8%: yes, they are closely related

Conclusions

The survey confirms the coexistence of the idleness and industriousness in Serbian society. However, it is interesting to specify that in general the subjects do not think that much work brings much money, and especially that they fail to clearly distinguish the relation between an insufficient work and a bad economic situation.

The value of work is disputed, which is indicated by the uncertain relation between work and income.