Over the past year, roughly one in five respondents shifted their focus from personal life to work. The finding came from a large national survey reported by a major business publication. In the regions, residents in Siberia showed the biggest tilt, with twenty three percent, followed by twenty percent in the Urals and the Northwest.
Personal life and family remained a priority for eighteen percent of participants. This tendency was strongest in the North Caucasus where a quarter of people shifted their focus to family, and in the southern regions where about a quarter did the same. Meanwhile, fifty five percent said the balance of work and personal time stayed the same over the year.
Forty seven percent believe extra pay for processing would improve the balance between business life and personal time. Forty four percent favor a flexible program, thirty six percent want to reduce the workload, thirty three percent support remote work, and thirty one percent want an additional weekend.
Regional preferences vary. In the Far East, forty five percent want more weekends. In the Middle Federal region, which covers the South and Moscow, fifty four percent favored an extra processing fee, while forty five percent preferred a flexible program. In St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, thirty eight percent chose remote work.
Almost all respondents encountered processes; only ten percent said they did not stay at work. In the Far East nineteen percent reported staying late, in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region twelve percent, and in the Volga region eleven percent. Forty six percent said the processing steps were no longer a problem. The central federal region reported fifty five percent and the Urals fifty one percent.
More than half of Russians expect income growth in two thousand twenty five. The anticipated rise in earnings ranges from five to twenty percent, with the central region leading at about thirty percent, followed by the southern and Volga regions around twenty six percent and the Urals around twenty four percent, roughly forty percent of participants overall. More than ten percent foresee a rise of twenty to fifty percent, and about three percent hope for gains above fifty percent. Those optimistic about larger gains were most often in the North Caucasus around seven percent, in the Urals about five percent, and in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region around four percent.
According to the results, the bank plans to restart its salary project with new customer priorities in mind. It pledged to offer users tailored options that align with current conditions and loyalty.
The survey covered about one thousand five hundred Russian cities with populations over one hundred thousand.
Early government statements highlighted growth in real incomes for Russians.