“Great resignation” wave coming for companies
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#2Not a big deal at all. A great number of people are always looking to change their job at any given time. During the pandemic maby were reluctant to act on it, so it could have created a big delayed volume of resignations. It is not a problem because would be a lot of candidates to fill in the ranks, who too have quit their previous jobs.
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#3I'm not sure I believe the conclusion based on the survey. Resigning and "thinking about quitting [your] job" are very different things. I've spent my whole working life thinking about quitting but I've rarely actually quit, the pandemic hasn't changed that.
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#4> Surveys show anywhere from 25% to upwards of 40% of workers are thinking about quitting their jobs.
How does this compare to the figure over a longer period of time?
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#5I'm not sure I believe the conclusion based on the survey. Resigning and "thinking about quitting [your] job" are very different things. I've spent my whole working life thinking about quitting but I've rarely actually quit, the pandemic hasn't changed that.
Meanwhile I've thought about quitting and then also quit a whole bunch of times. Business as usual over here.
(Turns out the grass is pretty much the same in most places.)
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#6Hiring is just picking up. If you didn’t grab the best people during the pandemic because you had an incredible glut of qualified people applying, good luck doing that shit now.
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#7Im quitting and not looking for another job. Gonna use the savings to take a gap year, or a couple, work on some stuff I want maybe. Maybe more involvement in OSS is coming too?
I've never had a gap year, it was all school, then immigration, work, university, more work. Any holiday time you fly back home. I kept hearing its not unusual for people in the west to take gap years, so thats what Im doing.
edit: thank you all for advice, encouragement as well as for cautious pessimism. By the amount of upvotes Im hoping Im not the only one doing this. See you out there!
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#8Hiring is just picking up. If you didn’t grab the best people during the pandemic because you had an incredible glut of qualified people applying, good luck doing that shit now.
Should be good for wages then.
Unfortunately my company already did our yearly compensation adjustment. 2%, of course.
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#9Hiring is just picking up. If you didn’t grab the best people during the pandemic because you had an incredible glut of qualified people applying, good luck doing that shit now.
During the pandemic it was almost impossible to find qualified engineers.
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#10As well as the pandemic causing employment uncertainty, as @Andrew_nenakhov says, there could be a temporary downturn in the number of resignations in the last year and a significatnt portion of this "great wave" is potentially the numbers catching up again.
I also think that because a lot of people lost their jobs as a result of the pandemic, some industries moreso than others, the market may also be temporarily saturated (at least more so than usual) with candidates at the moment, which will dampen the number of resignations.
Having said that, I personally am receiving just as much recruiter spam as I was before.