62 percent said retirement benefits were a critical factor in staying with a job too. (Photo: Shutterstock)

Although most workers in a global study say that pension and retirement benefits play a critical role in whether they accept or stay in a job, employers aren't doing many upgrades to those benefits if they don't bring them any tax advantages.

Research from Accenture covering 10 countries in Europe, Asia-Pacific and South America reveals that 68 percent of workers with pension or retirement plans said those benefits were a critical factor in deciding whether or not to accept a job, and 62 percent said they were a critical factor in staying with a job.

But a report from the Society of Human Resource Management indicates that although "the vast majority" of U.S. employers believe that retirement savings and planning benefits are very or extremely important to their workers, they're not doing much to keep those programs as attractive to employees as they could—because the tax advantage to employers hasn't increased.