With the pandemic gradually fading away, employers are hearing two words more and more often: “I quit.”
This resignation trend is showing no signs of slowing down either.
Many Americans didn’t want to quit their jobs while things were so uncertain last year, but now they are more comfortable doing so with life normalizing.
"A lot of people were holding their breath over the last year, they had to make sure that they were stable during this time of uncertainty," Lauren Silbert, general manager of the personal finance website The Balance, told KCBS Radio. "Now that things are looking a little bit more promising, people are willing to take a little bit more of a risk."
In addition, people also have reassessed their values over the last year-plus.
"It’s really about spending more time with their families, treating themselves better than just working themselves to the bone," Silbert explained. "A lot of things, like a long commute, are no longer desirable to people, no matter what the job really is."
Employees have put the power into their own hands, which has forced employers to keep up by offering more flexible work hours and more hybrid positions. Sibert cited a study which revealed that 39% of people planned to leave their job after the pandemic is completely over.
"But I think this is probably going to continue for a while, I would definitely say past this summer and I would really say it’s probably going to be into the end of the year next year that we’re going to see this happening," she said.
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