A Little-Noticed Reason Workers Quit: Too Little Work(wsj.com)
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A Little-Noticed Reason Workers Quit: Too Little Work
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-little-noticed-reason-workers-quit-too-little-work-11646061707
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Low pay, high inflation as well. Cost of living is increasing quite a bit in many places, encouraging people to find a better source of income.
This isn't the same thing, but one of the reasons I quit my last job was because there was very little "real" work. Sure, there was "work." Basically, lots of pointless meetings and technical busy work: writing documents people rarely looked at, investigating 4 year old bugs that suddenly became important but nobody had a clue about, and, of course, writing more tests and refactoring a dumpster fire to fill the rest of the time.
I cannot tell if technology work has always been this way and I'm just too inexperienced to know it, or we are in the midst of a massive employment bubble.
People are very excited about adopting new tech x for zero reason, writing lots of Jira/Confluence salad to describe it. But at the end of the day 0 justifiable business case. Just pointless developer evangelicalism and nodding business heads.
From my first hand experience that for any of this VC money to actually work out, the real projects have to have just astronomical returns to make up for the rest.
People are very excited about adopting new tech x for zero reason, writing lots of Jira/Confluence salad to describe it. But at the end of the day 0 justifiable business case. Just pointless developer evangelicalism and nodding business heads.
From my first hand experience that for any of this VC money to actually work out, the real projects have to have just astronomical returns to make up for the rest.
Developers have always been interested in the new shiny object... the next new technology. However, the agile / jira / confluence disease is not related, and did not take hold until much later. There was a time without all that BS.
I think I'd be willing to take a pretty large pay cut to work at a company that does not tolerate this wasteful busy work. It's bizarre how it seems nobody really likes it, but we all collectively just keep it going as well.
The subtitle's better, this is specifically about hourly workers who struggle due to not being assigned enough hours:
"Employers often give people less than 40 weekly hours, leading to resignations and more trouble finding workers"
"Employers often give people less than 40 weekly hours, leading to resignations and more trouble finding workers"
Yes, that does clarify a lot.
Full-time {{company}} employees might get a lot of benefits but if you're scheduled for a 36-hour week then you're a part-time {{company}} employee.
Full-time {{company}} employees might get a lot of benefits but if you're scheduled for a 36-hour week then you're a part-time {{company}} employee.
* Covid deaths, some of those people were workers.
* Long Covid, not going to work if you can't.
* increased drug dependency due to pandemic
* workers on the "frontline" noticing they got fired despite being "essential" This is basically the same as "too little work" as in "noticing I'm being screwed over". There's a lot of variations on this, like IT workers realizing their jobs involve an insane amount of work and responsibility which keeps them from what they actually wanted to do with their lives.
* People retiring early, basically because of all of the above (except deaths).
These are the one's I've identified so far, I'd like to hear of any other possible explanations.