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Podcast: The Politics of Everything
Episode: 134: The Politics of the Great Resignation - Aliza Knox
Description: Terminology always has a season and moment in the sun. If I had to put money on it, I would bet for 2022 it would be this term â The Great Resignation. The âGreat Resignationâ was coined and predicted by psychologist Anthony Klotzâand is the tipping point of a nearly decade-long trend of employment dissatisfaction. Also known as the Big Quit and the Great Reshuffle this is an ongoing economic trend in which employees have voluntarily resigned from their jobs en masse, beginning in early 2021, primarily in the United States. Possible causes include wage stagnation amid rising cost of living, long...