BodyButter
Vital Football Legend
I have a theory about The Great Resignation that I'm hoping to test here. The official line is that lots of people lost their jobs in the pandemic and found ways of making money online. Free of bosses and offices, these liberated people will never return to their old jobs and so we have a shortfall in the labour market.
I think that's a lovely story promoted by tech evangelists but it's fundamentally false. The jobs that were available to people through the internet were shitty jobs like delivering food and driving Uber.
I suspect that the shortfall in the labour market is being caused by 2 years of no immigration and older people taking early retirement. The biggest labour crunch in the world is happening in the US where Trump built a wall to keep immigrants who want to work out of the job market.
I don't know of anyone who has been liberated from work by the pandemic. I know of quite a few who had their wages cut and probably more people who started working from home and are hoping to keep it that way.
So what is your experience of The Great Resignation? Have you told your boss to do one and used the internet to work for yourself as the story goes or was your experience different? Have your working circumstances changed due to the pandemic and if so, how?
I think that's a lovely story promoted by tech evangelists but it's fundamentally false. The jobs that were available to people through the internet were shitty jobs like delivering food and driving Uber.
I suspect that the shortfall in the labour market is being caused by 2 years of no immigration and older people taking early retirement. The biggest labour crunch in the world is happening in the US where Trump built a wall to keep immigrants who want to work out of the job market.
I don't know of anyone who has been liberated from work by the pandemic. I know of quite a few who had their wages cut and probably more people who started working from home and are hoping to keep it that way.
So what is your experience of The Great Resignation? Have you told your boss to do one and used the internet to work for yourself as the story goes or was your experience different? Have your working circumstances changed due to the pandemic and if so, how?