It is no longer about money, the package, Ts & Cs etc. Emirates is not what it was, Dubai is not what it was and the management hardly communicate and when they do it is without any degree of sincerity and thus no longer seem to care, although I would love to be proved wrong. We have had no face to face meetings with anyone for a long, long time now and the general opinion held is that we are being run by a few very greedy people acting as megalomaniac dictators.
With regards to money, the recent pay review was appallingly low compared to the price rises in Dubai (although the city promotes itself with regard to shopping, this place is no longer the place to get a cheap anything!) But the price of a day with the family is also becoming more expensive and the majority of us now are of the opinion that no amount of money offered would tempt us to work on days off.
Put simply, it just goes back to that story of the two buckets, one for money, the other for !!!!. You leave when the first one is full and as the !!!! seems to be applied liberally from up high, then the majority of us now have a bucket that is literally overflowing.
As for where next? I guess that most of us are looking for that dream job, but accept that it does not exist and if we are to cope with a bucket of !!!! then we want to be at home, in our own beds and live life to the fullest amongst friends and family.