Most agency employees plan on staying in the insurance business, according to a Vertafore survey.
Seventy-three percent of insurance professionals said they would remain in the industry for at least six years, the data showed, while 18% of respondents said they would remain three to five years and 9% said one to two years.
At the same time, “today’s hard market is making it more difficult to place risk, find coverage options and ease clients’ frustrations,” says Vertafore. “For agency staffers, those factors are taking a toll. More than half of agency workers said they are experiencing increased stress and a heavier workload.”
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