Nearly a third, or 30%, of Czechs are unhappy with commuting to work, this is a 7% increase compared to the previous year, according to a survey from Grafton Recruitment.

According to the survey, with the increasing number of job offers, the willingness of Czechs to move to work is also falling. Two thirds of Czechs would not be interested in moving more interesting jobs or higher wages.

Jitka Součková, marketing manager at Grafton Recruitment said that as unemployment lowers and the number of vacant jobs rise, the willingness of Czechs to move to work naturally decreases.

“Czechs want to travel for a maximum of 30 minutes, but one fifth of survey respondents are traveling longer,” Součková said. “Employers looking for new workers should focus on this group. They are the people who will most likely be the most open to change if they get an offer of adequate work at a smaller distance from home.”

According to Grafton, a long commute to work can only be offset by a larger wage increase. For example, a 60-minute job offer will be as attractive to most people as a 30-minute offer only if the wage offered is at least a fifth higher.

They survey was conducted by Grafton and Behaviolabs.com on a sample of 1,123 respondents.

Earlier this month, Grafton’s Eastern European operations were acquired by GI Group.