{"id":834798,"date":"2026-07-31T03:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834798\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T03:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T03:17:08","slug":"australian-job-mobility-slides-to-7-2-as-job-hugging-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834798\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian job mobility slides to 7.2% as job hugging persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workers aged between 25 and 44 years, however, recorded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcamag.com\/au\/specialisation\/recruitment\/reluctant-stayers-why-fewer-australians-are-changing-jobs\/576510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a lower job mobility rate<\/a> with 8.1%. The decline continued for older workers, with those aged between 45 and 64 years posting a 4.6% job mobility rate, and those aged 65 and over logging a 1.2% job mobility rate.<\/p>\n<p>By gender, job mobility was higher for men with 7.4%, compared with women&#8217;s 7.1%. Women also posted a bigger decline in job mobility with 0.8 percentage points, while men only saw a decrease of 0.2 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>By location, the Northern Territory reported the highest job mobility rate with 11.1%, followed by Queensland ([8.2%]) and South Australia (8.2%). Other states and territories posted:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tWestern Australia (7.3%)&#13;<br \/>\n\tTasmania (7.3%)&#13;<br \/>\n\tAustralian Capital Territory (7.2%)&#13;<br \/>\n\tVictoria (6.9%)&#13;<br \/>\n\tNew South Wales (6.5%)&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Reasons for leaving for work<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the report also revealed that 2.1 million people left or lost their job in the past 12 months, similar to the numbers posted in the year to February 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly a quarter (24.6%) of those who left their current job said they wanted to &#8220;get a better job or just wanted a change.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers aged between 25 and 44 years, however, recorded a lower job mobility rate with 8.1%. The decline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,5449,337718,44,106071],"class_list":["post-834798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-human-resources","tag-job-mobility","tag-news","tag-retrenchment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834798","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=834798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}