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Interim execs prioritising meaningful work over tenure

Most interim executives are more concerned with whether an assignment is meaningful, rather than the length of the engagement, new research shows.

Watermark's 2023 Annual Interim Executive Survey reports that 40% of respondents had no preference for interim or permanent work, with only one in 10 seeing interim as a "gap fill".

"With the general trend of decreasing job tenure in Australia, we predict the importance [of] the nature of work, over the contractual engagement method, will continue to influence respondent's results," Watermark Executive Search senior partner Caroline McAuliffe says...