"Great resignation" wave coming for companies - Upwards Of 40% Of Workers Are Thinking About Quitting Their Jobs

“The great resignation”: Upwards of 40% of workers are thinking about quitting their jobs

Workers have had more than a year to reconsider work-life balance or career paths.

www.axios.com

Companies that made it through the pandemic in one piece now have a major new problem: more than a quarter of their employees may leave.
What's happening: Workers have had more than a year to reconsider work-life balance or career paths, and as the world opens back up, many of them will give their two weeks' notice and make those changes they’ve been dreaming about.
“The great resignation” is what economists are dubbing it.

• Surveys show anywhere from 25% to upwards of 40% of workers are thinking about quitting their jobs.
• "I don't envy the challenge that human resources faces right now," says Anthony Klotz, an associate professor of management at Texas A&M University.

A number of colliding trends are driving the resignation boom, experts say.

• University of Michigan economist Betsey Stevenson tells Axios, "People have had a little more space to ask themselves, 'Is this really what I want to be doing?'" So some are deciding they want to work fewer hours or with more flexibility to create more time for family or hobbies.
• Others are considering switching careers entirely.
  • A cruise ship staffer trained and pivoted to work in a data center because the pandemic showed her the volatility of her industry.
  • An insurance broker and her restaurant manager husband both left their jobs to start a landscaping company because they realized during the pandemic that they wanted to spend more time outside.
• Some are quitting because their bosses won't let them work from home post-pandemic. Others are leaving because they miss their offices, but their companies are now hybrid or all-remote.
• "A lot of people who want to go back are finding that the office that they come back to is not the office they left behind," Klotz says.

There's not much firms can do to hold onto employees who want to switch fields. But human resources may be able to retain some workers by offering as much flexibility as possible, says Cathy Moy, chief people officer at BDO USA, a financial services company.
But, but, but: The big churn could ultimately be good for workers and employers.

• There are now a record 9.3 million open jobs in America, Axios' Felix Salmon reports. And people can still rely on unemployment insurance so they're not desperate to nab the first job offer that comes along, Stevenson says.
• "Hopefully we’ll see a lot more people in 2022 employed and stable because they're in jobs they actually like," she says.

 

[melty]

I'm one of these people, it's not because of handouts as I don't expect any kind of safety net if I leave aside from my own savings. Just having time to think, and getting really tired of everything. It's tough because my job pays well and they're pretty laid back, so it seems foolish to leave. I just kind of hate everything and want some kind of change.
Likely, some large percentage of people are always "thinking about quitting" and not many will actually do it.

 

[Not Really Here]

Yep. I’m on permanent WFH, and I hate it so much that I’m thinking of getting my CDL.

If anyone has one and is willing to tell me if it’s reasonably easy to go into after 10 years in finance, I’m all ears.

Most places in the US have more than enough local CDL drivers so it would be an OTR job driving shit across states while getting shit from supposedly licensed drivers and cops.
Really the funniest part of your post is that you don't like working from home, and the idea to fix that, is to work from a shittier than an RV home.

 

[Uncle June]

Feels good having an in-demand, relevant skill that has an hourly rate going to space because retarded zoomers are all going to liberal arts colleges.

Feels good knowing I can walk out of said job at any time and have another, likely better one by the end of the week. Wouldnt do that though, I do like my job, but still. Feels good.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

I spent at least 20 hours (which included a total of 6 hours with a senior dev) just to work out a bug that was essentially caused by me following the advice of senior senior dev months ago and only months later hitting the roadblock that advice caused.

Oh this one hits me on a personal level.

 

[Corpun]

I am divided on this.

On one hand it is lazy fuckers abusing government handouts.

On the other it is hurting the government to continue giving these out.

 

[Shroom King]

Most places in the US have more than enough local CDL drivers so it would be an OTR job driving shit across states while getting shit from supposedly licensed drivers and cops.
Really the funniest part of your post is that you don't like working from home, and the idea to fix that, is to work from a shittier than an RV home.

He could be a roustabout on an oil rig. No road, no home, no worries!

 

[Screw Danlon]

Now people are increasingly entering a setting where you can't even have a supervisor lean over your shoulder to see what you're doing physically, and most people in any given workplace are lazy sacks of shit. You are not..tangibly accountable, let's call it, if you're working from home. How to make sure lazy wage slave #4221 is doing his job? Well..you get where I'm going with this, I'm sure. I think an awful lot of people are in for a very rude awakening not too far down the road.

Yeah. My company already tracks all that stuff remotely and I’m sure they’re not unique.

Most places in the US have more than enough local CDL drivers so it would be an OTR job driving shit across states while getting shit from supposedly licensed drivers and cops.
Really the funniest part of your post is that you don't like working from home, and the idea to fix that, is to work from a shittier than an RV home.

Damn. Guess I’ll keep trying to find a business analyst job then.

The biggest issue with WFH is that my office just always has work stuff in it, even if I want to just relax and play a PC game. I had hoped that if I could get a short haul job I could at least leave my job at work again.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

On one hand it is lazy fuckers abusing government handouts.

Can you really call them lazy though? If suddenly unemployment was guaranteed for the foreseeable future and was more than what you were making at retail or some shit, what argument is there against taking it? It's sheer pragmatism.

 

[Not Really Here]

The biggest issue with WFH is that my office just always has work stuff in it, even if I want to just relax and play a PC game.

You could just get another computer and a place with an extra room, segregate work and home space.
But you do you.

 

[Corpun]

Can you really call them lazy though? If suddenly unemployment was guaranteed for the foreseeable future and was more than what you were making at retail or some shit, what argument is there against taking it? It's sheer pragmatism.

I'm too much of a prot work ethic tard and have too much pride to say otherwise.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

"We don't know how to keep them!"
>Try giving them a raise.
"No, if we do that then upper management, who does fuckall, won't get six figure bonuses!"
>Try giving them free health insurance like you did the Boomers.
"No. Six figure raises."
>Try giving them 30 days paid vacation/sick days a year.
"No. Six figure raises and then they won't feel company loyalty."
>Try getting rid of the bullshit pandering to troons and faggot.s"
"No. Company loyalty would suffer. And six figures."
>Try treating them better.
"No. I makes my dick hard to act like an ignorant asshole and rub it in their face I make six figures."
>Try offering dental and vision, nobody does that.
"Six. Figures."
>Fuck this, I'm out.
"Why isn't anyone loyal to the company? We've tried nothing at all and now we're out of ideas!"


Fuck these major companies whining. They made this bed, they can have a crazy blonde bitch light it on fire while they're sleeping in it.

 

[Salubrious]

So all I see coming from this is more jobs shifting into a work-from-home atmosphere in order to react to this..which..concerns me.

I worry for the longer term ramifications of turning one's home into one's workspace catching up with us. I fear it'll make everyone wish they could go back to an office setting. Just think like an evil corporate overlord for a moment: Imagine what's going to happen to your personal time when we hit a point where you no longer have an option (or so few that they're constantly fought over) to take a job in your field that isn't work-from-home. Imagine being on call all the time, or being expected to work at odd hours, or any number of invasive bullshit job expectations simply because you're now stuck in this trap.

All of that might be fine if you're making bank off of what you do and have appropriate responsibilities for it, but what if you just end up turning your home into your wage cage? I worry that people really aren't thinking this shit through as well as they should.

You are right, but we were heading down that path the moment smartphones and laptops were invented.

The great irony; computers were supposed to make our jobs easier, but instead we are expected to be on call 24/7.

 

[Kermit Jizz]

"We don't know how to keep them!"
>Try giving them a raise.
"No, if we do that then upper management, who does fuckall, won't get six figure bonuses!"
>Try giving them free health insurance like you did the Boomers.
"No. Six figure raises."
>Try giving them 30 days paid vacation/sick days a year.
"No. Six figure raises and then they won't feel company loyalty."
>Try getting rid of the bullshit pandering to troons and faggot.s"
"No. Company loyalty would suffer. And six figures."
>Try treating them better.
"No. I makes my dick hard to act like an ignorant asshole and rub it in their face I make six figures."
>Try offering dental and vision, nobody does that.
"Six. Figures."
>Fuck this, I'm out.
"Why isn't anyone loyal to the company? We've tried nothing at all and now we're out of ideas!"


Fuck these major companies whining. They made this bed, they can have a crazy blonde bitch light it on fire while they're sleeping in it.

The one truly astounding thing this last year and a half has been how absolutely petite the elite have been. They would literally have their business not running at full capacity and have to close down for portions of the day, rather than give their serfs literally anything. I think the best attempt I've seen is fast food places offering a $500 sign on bonus. It's mind boggling.

You are right, but we were heading down that path the moment smartphones and laptops were invented.

The great irony; computers were supposed to make our jobs easier, but instead we are expected to be on call 24/7.

The worker hears: I can get my job done in only 6 hours now
The boss hears: We can squeeze 10 hours of value out of their 8 hours of work (and they don't see a cent of difference lmao).

 

[Meat Target]

The great irony; computers were supposed to make our jobs easier, but instead we are expected to be on call 24/7.

There's a Calvin and Hobbes strip where Calvin's dad points this out; "if we wanted more leisure, we'd have machines do things less efficiently.

 

[Zero0]

Anyone who still says that UBI wouldn't result in people staying home jerking off needs to be hit with a bat.

 

[Sped Xing]

Really the funniest part of your post is that you don't like working from home, and the idea to fix that, is to work from a shittier than an RV home.

Yeaaahhh if you're the type of person who gets stressed about not having a clear separation between work and home, OTR trucking is a hilariously bad fit.

I love my CDL job, but it's certainly not representative. I get paid by the hour FFS.

OTR I would have loved when I was single, but I also loved months at sea with nothing to do but work out and watch flying fish out a scuttle in the bow. For someone who is temperamentally-suited, driving randomly around the country and eating Pilot pizza every day is a swell way to join the middle class.

 

[Not Really Here]

driving randomly around the country and eating Pilot pizza every day is a swell way to join the middle class.

To be fair, the truck stops have really upped their game in the last few decades, but if you like computer gaming, a truck on truck stop wifi isn't as good as, well anything else.

 

[tehpope]

I love working from home. Get to play doom on my PC while on the lock waiting for calls to come in. Good shit.

 

[Unpaid Emotional Labourer]

People ain’t gonna be happy but we’ve been 75% or so WFH, and we’re going back to being 25% WFH, and it’s only go to be peripheral/support type folks (Finance for example) remaining at home.

 

[Sped Xing]

To be fair, the truck stops have really upped their game in the last few decades, but if you like computer gaming, a truck on truck stop wifi isn't as good as, well anything else.

I didn't spend enough time at truck stops to fuck around with wifi and PC gaming. My hobby is making money.

Some of the stuff at truck stops is truly hilarious. "Air conditioning through a tube! Only tenbux a night!" Or, you know, don't be a gash and just get used to the heat.