THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GREAT RESIGNATION
We are living through a period dubbed The Great Resignation. It would be delightful to buy into a fantasy of hordes of employees downing tools to stick it to the man, favouring instead a simpler existence of allotment growing and whittling. Or maybe it’s workshy millennials, having grown rich from the start-ups that popped up to meet the new demands of homebound consumers, keen to spend more time with their plant babies.
The phrase has been credited to US business and management professor Anthony Klotz, who predicted a great exodus of workers in 2021. Four million Americans quit their jobs in April, as, in parallel but ever late to the party, a similar phenomenon started to pick up pace in the UK.
Yet, here in Britain, alongside headlines of ‘The Big Quit,’ data
