Apparently 26% of the US workforce plans to look for new work soon.
Of that, 34% of millennials in the US workforce plan to look for new work soon.
Of those planning on looking for new jobs, 42% rate their employers ability to maintain their culture during the pandemic as a “C” or worse.
87% want to continue some form of work from home.
1/3 don’t want to work for an employer that would require them to work onsite full time.
This labor shift will put more pressure and risks on companies to capture the economic rebounding opportunities that are presenting themselves to many markets and industries.
I started my job two months before the pandemic began, and I’m planning to stay put until our contract ends in 2024 (maybe even 2029, if we get another one). I’m not a Millenial – I turn 50 this year – FWIW.
The pandemic isn’t over yet, so there is no “actually did” data…
No. I love my job when I feel like doing it. Of course they haven’t been able to maintain the same culture, you can’t reproduce the same kind of connections over Zoom. I’m dying to go back. Being shut up in my bedroom with two toddlers screaming in the next room (my kid and the nanny’s kid) is some kind of ADHD hell. The best part of my job is being with my colleagues.
If I’m understanding, we’re comparing 26% who want to leave now with 15% who did leave in the past. I’m genuinely curious as to how the 26% compares with, say, the people who wanted to leave their jobs in 2016.
I love working from home. I’m actually getting to know people in my department better. Two offices, I didn’t know anyone in the other office. I know them better now with Slack IM’s. Very funny people.
It’s also great that I can work weekends easier when the need arises. I’m saving time for my commute and wear and tear on car.
I totally understand that it’s very hard for some. Especially folks with children. It’s not the case for me. I have a perfect work area at home and am never disturbed.
I’ll be VERY unhappy if I’m required to go back to their office. Been with them for 29 years, I think I should be allowed to continue to work from home.
I should probably answer the OP if I’m going to post in here…
I changed jobs back in September so it’s probably no surprise that I’m not looking to move once the pandemic is over. My job change had nothing to do with COVID; my company got bought by a conglomerate that can’t get its head out of its ass.
As stated in the survey results, a significant % of people that want to continue working remotely are also concerned about their ability to be promoted and move up in an organization where most people are working from home. I would think that would be a problem as well, as your ability to perform as a leader is more than being productive.
I’ve also heard anecdotally from round table discussions that I’ve had with leaders from other companies, that if your job can be completely done remotely via a laptop, then your job can probably be automated as well. I personally think that’s a bit hyperbolic, but there may be some truth there as well.
I think we are all in for some interesting changes in the workforce. I work for a manufacturing company with plants all over the world. The majority of our employees (direct factory labor) cannot work remotely. You can’t take a CNC machine home with you.
What he meant was that the article cites surveys saying 26% of workers want to change after the pandemic. But @Deeg was responding to this:
which is talking about actual turnover in prior years.
So the point @Deeg was making is this: If, say, 14% of workers in 2018 actually changed jobs, how many had plans to change jobs? 15%, 25%, 32%?
Only if we know that latter number can we compare it to the 26% planning to change jobs in the current survey about post-pandemic and know whether the 26% number is more, less, or the same as an ordinary year.
Only 14 percent of U.S. workers believe they have the perfect job and more than half want to change careers, according to a new poll released on Monday…
Nearly 80 percent of workers in their 20s said they wanted to change careers, followed by 64 percent of 30-somethings and 54 percent in their 40s.
I work in a call center in California, which makes it harder to find work-from-home gigs (and I have a Siamese-mix who gets very vocal when she wants my attention, and she seems to get especially needy if I’m on the phone). Planning to change jobs anyway, due to steadily growing hatred of $EMPLOYER, and being sick of spending almost 4 hours/day commuting by public transit.
My wife just gave notice at her job. Over the past four months, they converted her (and every other manager) from salary to hourly; fired the popular executive director with no explanation; hired the one person no one on staff liked as the new ED; gave management staff four paid holidays while giving the new ED eight. She finally said “fuck it.” At the rate the board is pissing off all the staff, they won’t have retained anyone (with the exception of the new ED) by the end of summer.
Our family business has grown quite a bit since January, so I’m happy to have her working with me now full time.
Nope, I’m not part of the 26%. I rejoined the global 50 corporation 13 months ago, and have a pretty good gig. I live close to the office and have been going in since June. I am, one of the very handful of folks in the entire building that houses hundreds of offices.
It will be really interesting to see how this all plays out. My company already had a 50% no questions asked work remotely policy before the pandemic. That said, if one is in a HQ job, it’s pretty essential to have that face time every week. Nice as it may be, but the practicality of working remotely in Maui full time after everyone is back in the office is an open question. No doubt, I think it’s proven you don’t need to be in the office every day, but will it work to be remote when all your colleagues are in at least a couple days a week?
For me personally, business travel is going to be a lot more interesting. This is the longest time in many decades that I have not flown across the Pacific for work. I expect that there will be less business travel, but you just can’t build the relationships completely virtually that you can by meeting in person and having dinner. I do belive I travelled too much in the past. Maybe the right balance is quarterly face time with partners/clients versus monthly. Dunno. Will see how it plays out.
Even if I hadn’t retired before the plague hit, I’d have stayed where I was. I loved the company and enjoyed the work and the people. Tho technically, I will have a new job by the end of the year - a new grandbaby to wrangle with his/her toddler sister.
