{"id":333189,"date":"2021-04-26T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtualvocations.com\/blog\/?p=333189"},"modified":"2021-04-26T23:15:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:15:48","slug":"career-confidence-remote-workers-2021-survey-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtualvocations.com\/blog\/annual-statistical-remote-work-reports\/career-confidence-remote-workers-2021-survey-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Confidence Among Remote Workers: 2021 Survey Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Does career confidence influence job outlooks or individual perspectives while working remotely? Are remote workers confident enough to ask their employers for a raise or to report workplace harassment? Have the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic altered remote jobseekers’ career confidence? The answers to these questions and more are found in our Career Confidence Among Remote Workers Survey Results for 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Virtual Vocations 2021<\/strong> Career Confidence Survey<\/strong> was developed as a component of our annual Remote Work Week<\/strong> campaign celebrating virtual employment and the flexibility it provides professionals who want to take more control over their lives and work. This year, in addition to developing the Career Confidence Survey, we celebrated our sixth annual Remote Work Week event with the launch of our new Remote Career Center<\/strong><\/a>\u2014a remote jobseeker hub featuring more than 40 expert resources curated to help jobseekers improve their online job searches, hireability, and career success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Career Confidence Survey was open to all Virtual Vocations members. Over a six-day period we received 1,158 survey responses <\/strong>from adults either currently working from home, actively searching for remote jobs, or at least interested in telecommuting opportunities and flexible employment. <\/p>\n\n\n

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CEO’S Statement on Career Confidence<\/strong><\/p>

“In the last year, practically every U.S. employee with the ability to work from home became a remote worker at some point. While millions of U.S. workers telecommute every year, and have consistently done so for more than a decade, the sudden shift to remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic also thrust millions of new remote workers and previously on-site businesses into a new operational space.

At Virtual Vocations, we decided on a March 2020 content and jobseeker theme of courage<\/strong>. In thinking about how to be more courageous, bold, and brave as remote jobseekers and remote workers, we started to wonder about how professionals in the remote space rate their career confidence. We also imagined how their career confidence levels may influence their self-perceptions and work decision-making, as well as if the COVID-19 pandemic had altered remote workers’ confidence.

While many of the survey results demonstrated the resiliency of remote workers, we were also surprised by the effects career confidence can have on employees. We hope remote employees, remote-enabled companies, and outlets in the remote work vertical will use these survey results to shape their remote work plans and understand the importance of career confidence among professionals who work from home.”

\u2014Laura Spawn<\/strong>, Virtual Vocations CEO and Co-founder<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Key Findings<\/strong> from Career Confidence Among Remote Workers Survey<\/p>\n\t\t\t

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