Have Millennials Made Quitting More Common?

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2 points·hgennaro··6 comments

> More people are leaving their jobs, and disloyal young people may have something to do with that.

And how did we get those disloyal employees? Maybe it's a product of companies not providing with a meaningful career development, not investing in their employees, and hiring/firing people at company's discretion? Loyalty is a two way bond.

Since the Great Recession, employers have gotten away with this because they could. That may be about to change...

Lack of loyalty can't be attributed to loose laws during the recession, because it's much older than 2007+. For how long is it uncommon that somebody stays for dozen years in the same company?

In some states that may be true. If anything labor law has been becoming more employee friendly in California.

I must really be an outlier then. I was with the same company for 25+ years before being laid off. Because the job market for electronics engineers is so bad where I live, I've chosen to semi-retire and look around to see what I might do bring in income which doesn't involve a W2 job.

> In some states that may be true.

If by "some states" you mean "some (most?) parts of the Western world".

Maybe people are just frustrated with what corporate America has to offer with regards to employment opportunities. At some point the burdens of being an employee in a corporate environment exceed the point where it is advantageous to run your own business or be a freelancer.

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