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So, you left your job during the Great Resignation. What’s next?
How to navigate the Great Rehire
More Americans have left their jobs during the pandemic than at any point in the last two decades. 4.3 million people quit in December 2021 alone, and up to 65 percent of Gen Z plans to join what has become known as the Great Resignation.
We’ve left for all sorts of reasons. There are labor market reasons — lots of available jobs combined with low unemployment means potentially larger salaries — but that is not the primary driver. Most of us have left, instead, for “softer” reasons. We’re burnt out. The pestilent specter hanging over our lives for the last 700 days has forced us to re-evaluate our priorities, and we have reemerged with a growing unwillingness toward work that doesn’t align with our values.
In a 1954 speech to the World Council of Churches, President Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said that there were “two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” Four million Americans a month have been realizing we’re stuck in jobs that prioritize the urgent but unimportant.
The Great Resignation has been our response.
Things have started to change. Job numbers in the first quarter of 2022 have outperformed…
