During the peak of lockdowns, workers stayed in jobs longer than they may have wanted to so they could maintain some sense of security and normalcy during an unsettling time. Others had more time to rethink their priorities, interests, and overall sense of purpose. And some have come out of multiple lock-downs burnt out from juggling homeschooling, working from home and the emotional toll of living through a pandemic. Altogether compounding into a mass exit of sorts, with what experts are dubbing, “The Great Resignation.”
“There just wasn't the mental or physical capacity oftentimes to even do a job search in the height of a pandemic,” says Senior Research Associate for employee experience agency WerkLabs, Abby Haynes.
“Now, as things start to reopen a bit, there's a bit more time and ability to start doing those job searches and I think that's why you're seeing this play out right now.”
But this isn’t just sentiment. Recent studies consistently found... read more
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