To fast track your career, you should change jobs often, and work in different countries, business units and organizations. This diversity in experience will become even more important than qualifications over time.

HR practitioners identify working flexible or reduced hours as one of the factors most likely to impede career progression. Three times as many HR practitioners believe that working long hours is positive for your career than those who believe it is negative.

Ninety percent of respondents, however, say that work-life balance is important for their workforces and will present a challenge for organizations.

Two-thirds of respondents believe there is still a glass ceiling for women.