Source page: McKinsey & Company
Commentary
Flex, please
Jobs | Talent | Technology
February 8, 2023 – Tech workers in the United States—particularly older employees—overwhelmingly favor remote work, according to partner Oliver Bossert and coauthor. The authors also found a notable divergence in working arrangement preferences. Women working in tech ranked flexible working arrangements as the second-most-important reason for seeking a new job, while men ranked flex work as fifth-most important. Click through the interactive to see more findings from the global survey.
To read the article, see “What US tech talent expects from remote work,” December 21, 2022.
Interactive
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Visual form
Dot plot.
Layout / body structure
The visible opens in an age view, listing job-search motivations down the page and plotting age-group dots horizontally across a percent scale. A toggle at the top right switches between age and gender views.
What is being compared
It compares motivations for seeking a new job among tech employees, split first by age group and then through the toggle by gender.
Measurement system
The values are percentages of employed respondents, with one dot for each age group or gender segment positioned along a 0 to 50 percent horizontal scale.
Visible structure inside the graphic
Each row is one motivation, such as more pay, better career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, commute, team, health insurance, scheduling, paid leave, well-being, or childcare. Multiple dots per row show the different cohorts, and the flexible-working row is visually called out with a thin highlight box.
Main takeaway from the visual
Flexible work is one of the strongest differentiators in the chart, especially for older workers in the age view and, by the page framing, for women in the gender view. The chart is built to show how the ranking of motivations changes depending on which demographic lens is selected.
Key standout values or extremes
In the age view, more pay or hours sits farthest right overall, but flexible working arrangements clusters close behind and is especially elevated for older employees. The article framing also notes that women rank flexible work second among job-change motives, while men rank it fifth.
Controls / sequence, when applicable
The page includes an Age and Gender toggle, so the same list of job motivations can be re-read through two different demographic cuts. That switch is central to the visual because it changes which cohorts the dot clusters represent while keeping the same row structure.
Companion media, when applicable
There is no separate companion audio or video; the chart is the full visual on this page.