Should You Quit Your Job?
Should I stay or should I go? + 7 Tips for Quitting & Job Searching
I am seeing more and more articles about “rage quitting,” “quiet quitting,” and just people quitting their jobs at a higher rate than before.
April 2021 started what became known as the “Great Resignation.” From April through August 2021, over 4 million Americans quit their jobs each month. It dipped in September and October and was back above 4 million in November.
In between all the quitting, there were also layoffs, especially in tech.
According to ComputerWorld, in 2022, “According to TrueUp’s tech layoff tracker, there were 1,405 rounds of layoffs at tech companies globally through the first week of December, affecting 219,959 people.”
And 2023 is set to be even worse! Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, IBM, SAP, and Salesforce all announced layoffs after giant hiring sprees during the pandemic.
“According to data compiled by Layoffs.fyi, the online tracker keeping tabs on job losses in the technology sector, 669 tech companies have laid off about 193,098 staff so far this year.”
It is important to explain that many of those layoffs were for non-technical positions, with tons of specialized tech jobs still open, looking for the right…
