WASHINGTON — If what is posted on Twitter is a fair indication, people in Maryland and Virginia don’t much like their jobs.
Online jobs site Monster.com and social intelligence company Brandwatch studied a year’s worth of Twitter posts from across the country and analyzed posts specifically about jobs. The study puts both Maryland and Virginia in the top 10 for job haters.
It is the second year Monster and Brandwatch have conducted the study. It analyzed two million English-language tweets.
The top 10 states where people on Twitter hate their jobs at a higher ratio than loving their jobs are consistent with last year’s results, Monster said. All are exclusively in the eastern half of the U.S., and eight of last year’s 10 lowest-ranked states made showing again this year.
Three of the nation’s most populated states, Michigan, Ohio and Florida, are among the top 10 job haters, suggesting that population size significantly impacts job hate.
It might not be the job itself that many people hate.
“This study revealed that workplace social dynamics appears to also now play a greater role in job sentiment,” said Brandwatch’s Amy Barker.
“Workers tended to refer to ‘people’ in conversations where both job love and job hate is expressed, [suggesting] that it’s not always about the work, the pay or the office, but about who you spend every day with.”
Top 10 “hate their jobs” states:
- Michigan
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- New Jersey
- Ohio
- Maryland
- Louisiana
- Florida
- Connecticut
- Delaware
Top 10 “love their jobs” states:
- Idaho
- Montana
- North Dakota
- Vermont
- Utah
- Maine
- Alaska
- Washington
- Minnesota
- Tennessee
