For context: the Great resignation is a term applied to a phenomenon triggered by the pandemic and which occurs when people in underpaid jobs and/or job sectors that have suffered disproportionately from the added strains of the pandemic, such as education, healthcare, retail, etc quit en masse.
Essentially people quit because of burnout, reassessment of their work/life balance or plain out refusal to accept living wage jobs or below, especially if the risk of contracting covid19 is factored in.
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Not really in a way that ties in with the international phenomenon of low income job fatigue. Health workers er overworked and underpaid, but “flipping burgers” and waiting tables pay reasonably well. You can even say our extensive testing apparatus (country with the most tests in the world per million inhabitants, with a fair distance down to #2) has seen a lot more youth and young adult employment than usual, even if it is temporary.
There’s definitely been a mentality change, though. As an oldish fart it’s been great seeing how frustrated the younger generations are with the view to a life spent working – it doesn’t mean they don’t have to work, but at least we can stop pretending it isn’t soul-crushingly depressing having to spend so much of our brief glimpses of life on a tedious grind for money.
Not that I know of. There was a high in unemployment in 2020, but that was due to employers having a bad time during the pandemic. Also people who work in the health sector, especially nurses, suffer a lot. There are probably more who resign now than before, but this problem existed before covid too, it just got more extreme.
No, that is for people who can do it because they have enough money to live on savings. But here, since unemployment is high, nobody does it, or almost nobody does it.
Not really – some sources claim unemployment decreased in Bulgaria slightly.
Yes. But in good Portuguese fashion, lets overwork more the people remaining at their jobs=> more burnout=> lets not update our wages (with some exceptions) and lets just complain on TV.
Not that I really know of but unemployment is at a really low level. As low that some sectors barely can find people.
I suspect we might, though it’s very small for now. With our declining population and strong education, some sectors have actually been struggling for a while and therefore it’s easy to get some jobs without the qualifications. We also have seen a small drop in employment rates during the last year or two and the lack of nurses has increased a little and became a lot more of a pressing problem.
At least partly, the restaurant owner are struggling to retain or recruit waiters, but that’s on them, shitty pay, unpaid overwork and awful schedule.
I saw a lot of changing career, like A LOT, especially after the 1st lockdown … but quitting not some much..
The healthcare sector has seen a large bleed of employees due to poor conditions, poor wages, the pandemic and having to deal with masses of ignorant people.
In Italy this has mostly happened in the horeca (bars and restaurants) sector and in the logistics (truck and van drivers etc) sectors. One of the reasons is that, unlike many other countries, Italy doesn’t have minimum wage.
Oh yes, the restaurant/hospitality sector suffers from collective arthritis by now due all their „ hand-wringing“ 🙄
That’s a Austrian inside joke as many restaurant/hotel owners gave theatrical interviews that they are „händeringend“ ( hand wringing) in search of cooks, waiters, room cleaners etc…. while paying them the same shit wage and like to keep continuing undermining employment laws as they did before.
People left in droves.
Huh, as far as i know, this great resignation is only really an USA thing. I don’t know of anything like it happening here. And that would make sense, i don’t know what americans are doing but if you are healthy and able to you need a job here to survive, nobody is paying you to stay at home and do nothing
Nope. Haven’t seen it reach eastern Europe generally. Then again, minimum wage increases 10-20% every year here.
Yes, the U.S. indeed has; jobs are everywhere plentiful and the ordinary workers of yesteryear are demanding flexible hours increased pay sufficent to cover childcare and even generous employers are having difficulty filling position.
Workers have awoken from deep slumber and have discovered they are indispensable if the act in concert. Unions are finally coming back and we are not talking blue collar. Resignations are at the highest level because of better opportunites, but many have retired for good; some even telling their employers to take this job and …it on their way out!