I am one of those who chose to retire without notice because of a hostile work environment, due to a guy who felt that bullying good employees was an effective management technique. He supported supervisors even though they were wrong, and instead of training them how to be better at their jobs, supported them in their failures. Several good employees either retired early or quickly found other jobs because of this. I'll never understand why supervisors think highly productive (and award-winning) workers deserve this, but it's rampant in both private and government jobs. I feel free, despite the constraints of a very modest retirement income. And there are now remote jobs that can help with that. I didn't realize your neck of the world also experienced the "Great Resignation." Interesting times.
The UK echoes the USA in this regard. Employers complain that there aren't enough workers. Employers and government ignore some of the main reasons for having a hard time finding enough workers. (In addition to what I wrote about today, due to hardly any pandemic mitigations any more, we have endless rounds of COVID and each round adds to the estimated 2 million who have Long COVID.) There are differences in how hard some factors push on people to change jobs, and Brexit shoved out droves of foreign workers who used to harvest our crops, which is a factor you don't have. But as with the USA, unemployment is low. People can jump to a new job more readily than usual, so why stay in a job that is a misery?
I am one of those who chose to retire without notice because of a hostile work environment, due to a guy who felt that bullying good employees was an effective management technique. He supported supervisors even though they were wrong, and instead of training them how to be better at their jobs, supported them in their failures. Several good employees either retired early or quickly found other jobs because of this. I'll never understand why supervisors think highly productive (and award-winning) workers deserve this, but it's rampant in both private and government jobs. I feel free, despite the constraints of a very modest retirement income. And there are now remote jobs that can help with that. I didn't realize your neck of the world also experienced the "Great Resignation." Interesting times.
The UK echoes the USA in this regard. Employers complain that there aren't enough workers. Employers and government ignore some of the main reasons for having a hard time finding enough workers. (In addition to what I wrote about today, due to hardly any pandemic mitigations any more, we have endless rounds of COVID and each round adds to the estimated 2 million who have Long COVID.) There are differences in how hard some factors push on people to change jobs, and Brexit shoved out droves of foreign workers who used to harvest our crops, which is a factor you don't have. But as with the USA, unemployment is low. People can jump to a new job more readily than usual, so why stay in a job that is a misery?