The Great Resignation: Why 4,000,000 People Quit Their Jobs

As companies roll out their back to office policies, employers are experiencing a mass exodus of employees only one year after we've seen the highest unemployment rates since the great depression. This video explains how we might have got here. I will follow up with another video on the future of work and what does it mean for you.

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[donaldoehl]

As a person who has wasted many many hours of my life in my car commuting I applaud anyone who refuses to return to the office.

[jimwhitehead]

In my last tech job, my boss was so impressed with my original research in satellites, that he submitted it for a $10K company prize as his own. This is how some treat their creatives: like dirt. I quit and they went under later. Karma.

[rikasp]

Things are definitely changing. Going to college and finding a 9 to 5 is no longer the dream. Financial freedom and happiness is.

[edwardnelson]

Companies themselves are responsible for this movement. Companies have neglected to emphasize loyalty to their employees for the last few decades, COVID forced individuals to take a step back and examine their professional work life and decided that it is just not worth it.

[jameshanna]

People decided that if they were going to be poor and miserable, they could achieve that without working a degrading job.

[satoril]

After I announced my resignation at my last job, I overheard my boss saying to the team "we're looking for a replacement, but it may take some time to find someone of such a high caliber" - yeah, if the company didn't treat me like shit, didn't have such an extreme amount of toxicity, and paid me what I was worth (40% more), I would have atleast considered staying.

[Sthriven]

I'm so happy to be part of the great resignation. PTSD from a job is real

[amberjohnson]

I’m seriously considering doing the same, I’m burnt out and they have me doing the jobs of 5 people. My mental and physical health is way more important. This company sucks.

[agrxdrowflow]

Corporate life = prison. Told where to go and when. Constant fear of bad bosses, HR, security, getting shanked by co-workers. Armed guards. People have simply decided to leave the prison.

[patriciarodas]

I am 55 years old. I do not want to go back to an office. Last year I saved more money in a year, than I ever did. Just the thought of wasting money in food, gas, stuck in traffic makes my anxiety level spike!

[sammy]

I think a big reason too is that employees are tired of being treated like garbage by customers and not being allowed to stand up for themselves. I've worked in the service industry for 13 years and I'm personally just tired of being treated as less than human by a shocking number of customers who are so spoiled or can't control their emotions.

[bradleymosman]

Boomer here. I know the usual stereotype we fall into in the minds of millennial folks, and younger. But I have little experience with that stereotype. My father was a butcher providing for a woman and three children. We had enough, but that is all. My wife grew up in a dying coal mining town. Her father never learned to read or write. She was often on the edge of starvation. I worked my way through college and graduated in 1975. That is approximately when all the downsizing and offshoring began. I've spent over forty years coping with plant shutdowns, oil busts, corporate bankruptcies, mass layoffs and long stints in the unemployment line. In the process, I've kept four children fed, clothed, housed, doctored, and so on. I'd get thrown out of a factory on my face, then go home and tell my family how tight things were going to be. I very much understand what problems the millenials face. So very many things seem out of their reach. Some of us Boomers lived luxuriously in the suburbs. But very many of us did not. In America, you truly might be the first generation to be less prosperous than the previous one through no fault of your own. I know this because my own children, hard workers that they are, still need some financial help.

[ljksn]

I would just rather work for myself or work from home. I don't like being on someone else's clock or building their dream.

[ubucgqr]

Cost of living goes up. Wages stay the same. Enough is ENOUGH!! ✌️🚶‍♂️😤

[prerna]

Big corps - "you are replaceable"
Employers - "No u"

[Brian_Moser]

I quit my retail job because i hated having to be nice to customers when they're the ones that started the rudeness. All i could think about is punching a whole in their face, man or woman, old or child But i needed the paycheck and i didn't wanna go to jail for hurting someone. thank god i got an opportunity to go to university and study what i love.

[emmaflores]

Also a lot of people are also realizing they are being under paid, that they are worth more than they are being paid. Exactly minimum wage employees.

[tylersingleton]

I recently went through a divorce that wasn't my choice and became a sole custody single father of a 4yr old. My boss looked at it like I had joined a bowling club. I was a field technician and only asking for a minimum departure time. I could stay out as late as they needed me (I was often out till 10pm) but had to drop my son off at day care no earlier than 7am. That wasn't good enough for them and they were going to write me up for not leaving at 5 to get to a distant job on time. Screw em. I now get to play Halo with the little man every day and started my own farm. Home schooling will be next on the list.

[michaeldadon]

Extremely proud to be part of the great resignation. Quit my job October 7th 2020 and went with full self employment. Best choice I’ve ever made

[HairyTornado]

I never had the guts to quit my corporate job. I thought I'd work there until I retired and THEN I could have fun. I was laid off unexpectedly 2 years ago and decided to use that as an opportunity to try to grow my small youtube channel into my full time job. Fast forward 2 years, my wife and I BOTH work full time with our channel and the corporate jobs of our past are nothing but an awful memory of how tied-down and unhappy we were (without knowing it). We have the freedom to do whatever we want and we now make almost 4 times as much as we used to. It wont work this way for everyone, but the opportunities are out there.

Great video by the way. Very nice production from a smaller channel. Keep it up!