the share of teachers leaving the profession has been stable over the last years adermon and laun nevertheless a survey of trained teachers who had left the profession indicated that more than of respondents cited the work environment such as stress and heavy workload among the main reasons for leaving the teaching profession followed by working conditions and salary statistics sweden around of those who left the teaching profession would consider returning for a more reasonable workload in relation to working hours a greater opportunity to control the work situation and a higher salary statistics sweden m teachers in sweden also work longer hours than their colleagues in many oecd countries