Derek Thompson: “In April 2021, the Convention Board reported that job satisfaction within the first yr of the pandemic was the very best that the group had recorded since 1995. The Convention Board is a membership of firms, and maybe you’re disinclined to imagine a company of employers telling us in regards to the sentiments of workers. Honest sufficient!”

“Let’s examine with a gold-standard pollster, just like the Common Social Survey, which has been asking Individuals about their working life since 2002. Yearly of the survey, greater than 80 p.c of respondents have stated that they’re ‘very’ or ‘reasonably’ happy with their job. From 2018 to 2021—after an financial disaster, mass layoffs, and a surge in unemployment—the share of very or reasonably happy employees fell from about 88 p.c to … about 84 p.c.”

Persons are leaving their jobs primarily as a result of they’re seeing extra job openings — and that’s a very good factor.

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