05/10/2018

Study: Why Nonprofit Workers Are More Engaged

Despite lower compensation, nonprofit workers are highly engaged with their work

If you like to spend your days helping a cause important to you, then a nonprofit job will likely keep you happy and engaged. In fact, a study from Work for Good, a nonprofit job site that is a nonprofit itself, released a new study that shows exactly that: Mission-driven people love doing purposeful work. Here are some other highlights from The Nonprofit Workforce Speaks:

Mission-driven workers are especially engaged. If you’re looking for people who are driven and impassioned by the work they do, look no further than nonprofit workers. Ninety-three percent—nearly three times the national average, based on a 2015 Gallup report—say they are highly or somewhat engaged in their jobs.

Once people start working in nonprofits, they are likely to stick around. Although 58 percent of nonprofit workers did not originally set out to find a nonprofit job, 88 percent plan to work in nonprofits long term, and 90 percent recommend nonprofit work to others—all of which Work for Good attributes to a current climate of increased social awareness and responsibility.

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