Employees take prudent approach to job-hopping

Most Chinese employees played it safe when considering job changes in 2013 against a backdrop of a sluggish global economy, a leading headhunter said in a report released last week in Beijing.

Although more than 80 percent of respondents were presented with opportunities to work for other companies, fewer than one in five changed jobs in 2013, according to the survey by MRIC, a recruitment company founded in Hong Kong.

The company polled about 5,000 managers and professionals in the finance, retail, life sciences and technology sectors from the mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Singapore, including 3,000 from the mainland's first-tier cities.