UWM Report: Automated hiring systems could be making the worker shortage worse. “There’s a worker shortage in the United States. As the country recovers from the pandemic, companies are trying to bring their employees back into the workplace but are finding that many of those employees are quitting – a so-called ‘Great Resignation.’ There are many factors behind this worker shortage, but Noelle Chesley thinks there might be one going overlooked: the use of automated hiring systems to fill those open positions.”
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Denver Post: The Great Resignation bought more attention to the gender gap. Business leaders are finding ways to welcome women back to the workplace.
Denver Post: The Great Resignation bought more attention to the gender gap. Business leaders are finding ways to welcome women back to the workplace.. “The Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce and TARRA, a Denver-based flexible office and membership workspace, teamed up with researchers from Metropolitan State University Denver to explore solutions. The result is the paper ‘The Great Reset: Women in the Workforce 2022.’ The issues the paper explored include: women were 24% more likely to permanently lose their jobs because of the pandemic; women cut their hours or left the workforce at three to four times the rate of men; and full-time working mothers’ median annual earnings are 29% lower than working fathers’ pay.”
CNET: The Great Resignation Hasn’t Hit School Teachers Yet. Here’s Why It Still Might
CNET: The Great Resignation Hasn’t Hit School Teachers Yet. Here’s Why It Still Might. “The pandemic may be the last straw for a profession mired in stagnant pay, compounding demands and endemic burnout. The situation has some asking if the field of teaching needs a reset.”
Axios: Great Resignation boosts White House’s tech talent hunt
Axios: Great Resignation boosts White House’s tech talent hunt. “The administration wants to remake how government websites deliver services and improve the nation’s cybersecurity, but it will need skilled workers to make it happen. What’s happening: Senior officials are streamlining the hiring process for tech jobs and hoping to tempt technical workers with the lure of making a difference in people’s lives through government work.”
CNET: The great resignation is changing work in America, and experts say it’s here to stay
CNET: The great resignation is changing work in America, and experts say it’s here to stay. “Whatever the reason, this great resignation, as some have called it, is quickly remaking what it means to work in America. For some, that means rethinking their careers. For others, it’s a spiritual awakening, with a renewed commitment to a healthier balance between work and home. Some people moved away from big cities while working remotely during the pandemic, and now they don’t want to move back. Others are finding plentiful opportunities for jobs they can perform anywhere, whereas before the only jobs they could find were near where they lived.”
Life after quitting: What happened next to the workers who left their jobs (Washington Post)
Washington Post: Life after quitting: What happened next to the workers who left their jobs. “Stubborn inflation is threatening to eviscerate the value of raises, while workers’ savings, in part from sizable government checks during the pandemic, are evaporating. With yet another coronavirus wave now bearing down, the physical and mental health stresses of service-sector work are unyielding. While data on what happened next to those who quit is scant, recent analysis suggests that many workers who have left the fields of restaurant and hotel work — the two sectors with the most resignations — end up back in those industries or in similarly low-wage work in retail, according to the California Policy Lab at the University of California.”
Route Fifty: Three Myths of the Great Resignation
Route Fifty: Three Myths of the Great Resignation. “Let’s start with what’s true. More Americans left their job in April this year than in any other month on record, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ analysis of what it calls ‘quits.’ Even more people quit in July, setting a new record. We broke that new record again in August. And then again in September. This is what people refer to as the ‘Great Resignation,’ and it is, as I’ve written, getting greater by the month.”
Route Fifty: Quitting Your Job or Thinking About Joining the ‘Great Resignation’? Here’s What an Employment Lawyer Advises
Route Fifty: Quitting Your Job or Thinking About Joining the ‘Great Resignation’? Here’s What an Employment Lawyer Advises. “Record numbers of Americans have quit their jobs in recent months, with more than 4.4 million submitting their resignation in September alone. Millions more may be preparing to follow them to the exits – one survey found that around a third of workers wanted to make a career change. But one of the things I learned over the years as a lawyer and later as a professor specializing in employment law is that timing and preparation matter when it comes to quitting a job.”
Poynter: If you want employees to stay, tell them you are thankful for their work
Poynter: If you want employees to stay, tell them you are thankful for their work. “The pandemic showed us new ways to work and reorganized our priorities. A recent Gallup analysis showed that nearly half of U.S. workers (48%) are actively job searching or watching for opportunities. Employers have been crying about how many people are leaving their jobs. News executives tell me high turnover is their No. 1 worry right now. Here is my first advice: Tell the people that you want to stick around that you want them to stick around.”
CNBC: How to leverage the Great Resignation if you actually like your job and want to stay
CNBC: How to leverage the Great Resignation if you actually like your job and want to stay. “The job market is abuzz with record numbers of Americans quitting their jobs this year to secure higher pay and better work from employers desperate to hire. But if you actually like your job and want to stay with your company, you might feel like you’re missing out on the hot job market. That doesn’t mean you can’t benefit from the moment.”
Business Insider: A Chipotle general manager and 4 of his employees quit after a surge of to-go orders drove them to their breaking points
Business Insider: A Chipotle general manager and 4 of his employees quit after a surge of to-go orders drove them to their breaking points. “Peter Guerra, a Chipotle veteran of five years and general manager for six months, worked at the Scofield Farms Chipotle location in Austin, Texas. ‘My store was severely understaffed, we struggled just to keep our heads above water,’ with less and less support from management, Guerra said. He said he was regularly scheduled to work 80 hours a week, but often had to work additional hours to cover for employees who quit and left gaps in staffing.”
The Conversation: The ‘great resignation’ is a trend that began before the pandemic – and bosses need to get used to it
The Conversation: The ‘great resignation’ is a trend that began before the pandemic – and bosses need to get used to it. “As a professor of human resource management, I examine how employment and the work environment have changed over time and the impact this has on organizations and communities. While the current resignation behavior may seem like a new trend, data shows employee turnover has been rising steadily for the past decade and may simply be the new normal employers are going to have to get used to.”
CNN: A record number of Americans quit their jobs in September
CNN: A record number of Americans quit their jobs in September. “A record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September. America had 10.4 million open jobs that month as the worker shortage crisis continues, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday.”
Washington Post: ‘It’s a walkout!’
Washington Post: ‘It’s a walkout!’. “The discontent driving the Bradford workers and so many others had been there for years, an ever-present aspect of an economy that could be especially cruel to anyone without an education. The pandemic — the fights with customers over masks and the fears of falling sick — added to the strain. But it was the labor shortages, which extended to just about every part of the country, that caused workers’ long-suppressed anger to burst into the open.”
Route Fifty: The ‘Great Resignation’ is an Opportunity for Local Government to Create Purpose for Employees
Route Fifty: The ‘Great Resignation’ is an Opportunity for Local Government to Create Purpose for Employees. “The ‘Great Resignation’ has led to discussions amongst local government leaders about why workers are leaving and how to keep them. Recent data has shown that the pandemic has caused the nature of work to change. According to a survey from McKinsey in April, nearly two-thirds of U.S.-based employees said that Covid-19 has caused them to reflect on their purpose in life. Nearly half said they are reconsidering the kind of work they do.”