Is the great resignation happening?

The “great resignation” can mean a lot of things, from an exodus of exhausted parents from the workforce, to a widespread ideological movement of adults away from jobs they find meaningless, problematic, or inflexible, and into… something else, as yet unclear.

But is it actually happening?

Since the term was coined in May 2021 by Anthony Klotz, associate professor at Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, its use in the media has skyrocketed. A search on Lexis Nexis, which collates media mentions, reveals 5,493 uses of the term in newspapers, newswires, press releases, and blogs since it first came into being.

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