https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/07/top-reasons-great-resignation-workers-quitting/
Stop thinking we are SPECIAL. Attrition is happening everywhere. Heard it in Subsurface Forum. Nothing to see here. Folks leaving for different reasons due to COVID impact on their personal choices. What’s missing is - why can’t we be special - we know the reasons - if you care about keeping the investments you made on the people - then do the necessary things to keep them — other than the “free” chats at town halls - those don’t work.
“And many were pushed to the breaking point by employers who responded to pandemic staffing shortages by increasing demands on remaining staff, rather than reducing expectations accordingly.“
“Health concerns, increased workloads, unrealistic manager expectations are pushing many to the breaking point, readers tell me. And those who can afford to quit or take early retirement are leaving.“
“Many departing workers said their employers didn’t take the covid-19 threat or their concerns about it seriously”
“deans wanted to see bustling buildings again so students could have a ‘normal’ experience,”
“But it turned out that his firm was constantly understaffed, with employees calling out at the last minute because of illness or other pandemic-related emergencies. After five weeks of working double shifts and weekends, Smith had had enough: “For the first time in my working life, I sent an email to my manager and informed her that I quit with no notice," he said in an email.”
“For others, the pandemic created space and time to rethink their priorities and motives. Maria Ibgui, an international finance professional in Versailles, France, with nearly two decades’ experience, had quit her job at the end of 2019 because of burnout. Ibgui spent the pandemic looking after her mental health and family and getting in touch with her personal values, “which before were masked by self-inflicted ‘imperatives’ of our hectic lives.” With plans to start a career in a new field, Ibgui is adamant: “For no money in the world would I go back to my pre-covid life.””
“After 25 years managing HR for various agencies in the federal government, Mike Stein of Potomac, Md., quit a job he’d started during the pandemic after being “micromanaged and disrespected like I’ve never experienced even up to my last day.” As he told me in an email: “If you are close to retirement and your work is completely fungible and your benefits all transfer and your work can be done in any organization on the planet … there is no reason to stay and fight stupidity.”“