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"Coworker quality" has recently become a much more important driver for employees making decisions about leaving and joining organisations, new research shows.

According to Gartner's Global Talent Monitor, the "quality" of prospective coworkers is a driver for one in five jobseekers' decisions, and it's a reason one in four employees left a job in the first half of this year, director of Gartner's HR advisory, Robin Boomer, tells HR Daily.

"Coworker quality" is less about camaraderie and friendship than it is about how much a colleague can be trusted and depended on to do their job effectively, he explains.

And the findings suggest the problem of remote workers who aren't perceived as pulling their weight can have far-reaching consequences...