<story><title>Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-going-back-to-the-officepeople-are-just-quitting-instead-11623576602</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>By “quitting” they mostly mean getting new jobs or career changes. Not necessarily refusing to work in an office. The headline is misleading.&lt;p&gt;It’s also still a relatively small number in absolute terms:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In April, the share of U.S. workers leaving jobs was 2.7%, according to the Labor Department, a jump from 1.6% a year earlier to the highest level since at least 2000.&lt;p&gt;The higher turnover is expected in a booming economy like the one we’re in.&lt;p&gt;These articles with hyperbolic headlines and underwhelming actual data are very common right now. It feels like the journalists want us to believe some sort of revolution is happening, be it WFH or remote work or people quitting in droves. I’m beginning to think the reality is mostly a boring return to pre-pandemic normalcy, though, given how hard these articles are teaching for something noteworthy to share.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>durovo</author><text>What people miss in these discussions about going full remote is that the market for software developers is very good right now but this won&amp;#x27;t last forever. Many companies are surely going to embrace full-remote once they have built up the right processes and infra.&lt;p&gt;When that happens, it is not going to matter whether you live in California or Mexico or Brazil. It is much easier to replace an employee who is working remotely, the burden of looking for employees in the locality of your office is gone. Wages will stop growing. While WFH is very convenient, the strong market is giving developers a false impression that they won&amp;#x27;t become replaceable cogs in the future.</text></comment>
<story><title>Forget going back to the office – people are just quitting instead</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/forget-going-back-to-the-officepeople-are-just-quitting-instead-11623576602</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>By “quitting” they mostly mean getting new jobs or career changes. Not necessarily refusing to work in an office. The headline is misleading.&lt;p&gt;It’s also still a relatively small number in absolute terms:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; In April, the share of U.S. workers leaving jobs was 2.7%, according to the Labor Department, a jump from 1.6% a year earlier to the highest level since at least 2000.&lt;p&gt;The higher turnover is expected in a booming economy like the one we’re in.&lt;p&gt;These articles with hyperbolic headlines and underwhelming actual data are very common right now. It feels like the journalists want us to believe some sort of revolution is happening, be it WFH or remote work or people quitting in droves. I’m beginning to think the reality is mostly a boring return to pre-pandemic normalcy, though, given how hard these articles are teaching for something noteworthy to share.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>repsilat</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;It’s also still a relatively small number in absolute terms:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;In April, the share of U.S. workers leaving jobs was 2.7%, according to the Labor Department, a jump from 1.6% a year earlier to the highest level since at least 2000.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If those are monthly figures they are roughly going from &amp;quot;quit once every five years&amp;quot; to once every three. It&amp;#x27;s a pretty big change, I think. Positive, IMO -- mobility is healthy for the economy.</text></comment>