Stay or Switch? What the 2026 Labour Market Data Tells Us About Pay, Loyalty, and Gen Z in Cyprus

By Andreas Nikolaou, Managing Director, Manpower Cyprus For the better part of a decade, the advice to ambitious professionals was consistent: if you want a meaningful pay rise, change employers. The “job-hopper premium” was real, well-documented, and widely acted upon. But 2026 is rewriting that playbook — and the implications for employers and employees in […]
What Do Workers Want in 2026?

What Do Workers Want in 2026? According to our recent Work Intelligence Lab’s Global Talent Barometer research, global employees feel settled in the jobs they hold currently, but are far less comfortable with what might be coming down the road. In an effort to understand global worker sentiment, we interviewed 13,918 workers across 19 countries to […]