Job security statistics: the signals people report around their jobs
This page publishes once at least 30 people have completed the Job Security Signals Check in the current window. Until then the count is shown as below the reporting floor and no figures are published.
Once a cut reaches 30 completions, it shows how completions split across the four levels (Noise, Watch, Prepare, Act), the mean on each signal group, the share whose strongest signal is their manager rather than the company, their record or the market, and the same figures for respondents who manage people. Every figure describes signals respondents report around them. None describes what will happen to anyone.
Current edition
Fewer than 30 completions in this cut. Nothing is published below that floor. Next refresh: 2026-10-12.
Collection started on 2026-09-22. This page is rewritten when a refresh runs; the change log below carries every edition.
What this page will report
So that no cut is chosen after seeing the data, here is what is published when n reaches 30, and nothing else:
- Level distribution (share of completions in each band)
- Manager signal top share
- Mean score per dimension, 0 to 100
- Level by role level
The floor rule
No cut is published with fewer than 30 completions. Where a cut falls below the floor, the chapter is published with the count and no figures. The floor is set before the edition and never lowered. Completions are counted, not people: the capture is anonymous and cookieless, so a returning visitor is not identifiable and is not de-duplicated. Ad blockers drop some events, so every count is a floor. The full rules are on the methodology page.
What this page will never publish
- Any share of people who are about to be fired, or who expect to be. A signal level describes what respondents report around them, never an outcome.
- Any cut that names or could identify an employer, or an industry small enough to identify one.
- Any free text. None is collected.
- Any cut below 30 completions, or any cut that still contains the site's own test runs.
How to read it against other surveys
The outside figure to read this against is Gallup's: 45 percent of people who left a job voluntarily had no conversation with their manager about their future, satisfaction or role in the three months before they left, and 42 percent said their exit was preventable (Fortune on Gallup, July 2024). Gallup counts the silence from the side of people who left. This page counts it from the side of people still in the job: the share whose strongest signal is their manager is the closest it comes to measuring how many people have been left guessing.
How to cite this page
Leaders ADAPT, Job security statistics: the signals people report around their jobs, Workplace Reality Index, edition 2026-09-23, https://www.leadersadapt.com/job-security-statistics/. Until a cut passes the floor there is no figure to cite; cite the method instead. Every published figure will carry its n, its window and its date on the same line.
Change log
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-22 | Page created with the tool. Collection begins. No figures published; n below floor. |
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The four results
Every completed run lands on one of these pages, with your own scores drawn from the link the tool gives you. Each one is readable without taking the tool.
The other statistics pages
Every open tool on this site publishes its own statistics page under the same floor rule:
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- Am I the problem at work? Statistics on self view and how others see you
- Boss pattern statistics: what people report about their bosses
- Golden handcuffs statistics: what people say keeps them in their jobs
- Micromanaging statistics: how closely people say they are managed, and whether they know why
- Promotion block statistics: what stands between people and the next role
- Become a manager statistics: who wants the work, and who wants the title
- Should I quit statistics: what people asking are really leaving
- Toxic workplace statistics: four conditions at work, with the manager view first