Job satisfaction tempered by long hours, Mumbrella survey reveals

The vast majority of the media and marketing community believes the industry expects excessive hours of work; however, this translates to 10.03% of employees being ‘mostly unhappy’ with their work life, according to a readership survey of the Mumbrella audience.

Mumbrella readers are largely ‘mostly happy’ with both their life in general and their work life while just 1% and 0.44% are ‘extremely unhappy’ with their work life and their life in general, respectively.

The survey, conducted in December 2015, polled more than 1000 Mumbrella readers through Survey Monkey about a range of industry issues as well as their views on their professional lives.

Just over one third of respondents suggested there is a problem with work-life-balance within the industry, with 34.62% ‘somewhat agreeing’ with the statement ‘the marketing industry expects too many hours of work outside standard office hours’ while 22.08% ‘strongly agreed’ with the statement.