{"id":416028,"date":"2026-01-16T03:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416028\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T03:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:42:07","slug":"job-hugging-to-continue-in-australia-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/416028\/","title":{"rendered":"Job hugging to continue in Australia in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the report, 69% of Australians also noted that finding a job has become more difficult over the past year because of increased competition.<\/p>\n<p>Another 81% also said they don&#8217;t feel ready for the job search in 2026, with 36% noting that they are unprepared for how AI is changing employers&#8217; recruitment approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan Wong, LinkedIn career expert, said this behaviour is the &#8220;opposite&#8221; of what was observed during the Great Resignation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/news\/general\/job-hugging-more-employees-deciding-to-stay-put\/546616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Australians are job hugging<\/a>, staying in roles they might have otherwise left because the market feels uncertain and highly competitive,&#8221; Wong said. &#8220;When four in five people say they feel unprepared to job hunt, it&#8217;s not surprising many are choosing stability over risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This behaviour is an extension of how employees behaved last year, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/employee-engagement\/job-hugging-trend-hits-australia\/554948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ELMO Employee Sentiment Index<\/a> found that just 18% of employees were considering a career move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the report, 69% of Australians also noted that finding a job has become more difficult over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75853,64,63,5449,76886,44],"class_list":["post-416028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-ai-recruitment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-human-resources","tag-job-hugging","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}