The Myth That Most Americans Hate Their Job

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Perhaps you’ve heard: Everybody hates their job now.

“No One Wants to Work,” declared on its cover in . In the issue, the writer Noreen Malone that amid “widespread employee dissatisfaction” in the Great Resignation, the pandemic had “alerted new swaths of people to their distaste for their jobs.” magazine : Under the headline “Everyone Has a Job and Nobody’s Happy,” Kevin T. Dugan wrote that “even though the number of jobs may be outstanding, the quality of those jobs have been eroding.” This might explain why the subreddit —tagline: “Unemployment for all, not just the rich!”—grew from a couple hundred thousand subscribers at the. Kevin McKenzie, a site moderator, told that the channel reflected “the general displeasure with working, as a whole, and not feeling fulfilled.” Perfectly encapsulating all this outrage, ’s Rani Molla : “Hating work is having a moment.” Even Kim Kardashian , recently claiming that “nobody wants to work."