Evidence for the “great resignation” is thin on the ground

AS THE EFFECTS of the Spanish flu waned in 1919, Seattle’s workers agitated. Many were fed up with long hours and poor pay, especially at a time of high inflation. Shipyard workers went on strike, leading others to down their tools in solidarity. Newspapers were filled with stories of machinists, firefighters and painters quitting. Events in Seattle sparked labour unrest across the rest of the country and much of the rich world.

The term is elastic, but in essence it makes the proposition that the pandemic has provoked a cultural shift in which workers reassess their life priorities. People in low-status jobs will no longer put up with bad pay or poor conditions, while white-collar types scoff at the idea of working long hours. Some people have become lazier or more entitled; others want to try something new; others desire money less because they have realised the joys of a simpler life.

In October 96,000 Canadians who had left their job within the past year did so because they were “dissatisfied”, down from 132,000 on the eve of the pandemic. In Japan the number of unemployed people who had quit their previous job is near an all-time low. Data from New Zealand on labour-market “flows” look entirely unremarkable. There are hints of a small rise in resignations in Italy, but across the EU as a whole the flow of people from work into leisure is lower than before the pandemic.

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You’re basically theonion at this point. These titles are just the opposite of painfully obvious trends lol 😂

I've resigned from huge project position, but insecurity with client got bigger with covid,and no matter how much I'm earning, the damage and trauma was constantly developing

The shiftlessness of the Lower Orders still animates the Neo-Liberals, to opine on what 'is' or 'is not' the case! ZannysGang strikes a blow for 'Truth'. Yours truly, Almost Marx

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