Has there been a load of people quitting in your workplace recently? Seems to be a mass exodus.

Yeah, same. I think Covid made a lot of people have a rethink/re-evaluation.

I have noticed this too, I think people have become less afraid to quit a job on a whim.

I know some who will definitely regret it in the long run, having quit to follow their dreams in highly competitive low pay careers.

There is a lot of far away hills are greener syndrome going around, decent jobs with decent pay and conditions are not valued like they used to be.

Maybe a case of 2 years of on/off lockdowns, WFH etc gave people a lot of time to think and re evaluate their work situation as opposed to pre Covid where a lot of people were rushing around non stop with no time to think.

Currently negotiating on a salary at a new place for 28% more than my existing employer.

The rising cost of living is a large factor in my decision, my current place isn't bad to be fair. Just can't compete financially.

Some of the larger construction companies are ridiculous the last 6 months.

There's one I deal with and every single engineer/foreman has left since Christmas.

I see people moving on to places with higher pay but much worse conditions (expected to work extra hours every day with no pay). People are not doing their research on companies, just reading the advertised benefits. Beware of companies who go on about winning awards for being ‘best place to work’ and other such nonsense, if it was true it would not have to be advertised.

I'd be running in the door of any government department given the opportunity.

As a self employed construction professional, I don't see good times ahead.

Back in the olden days, when employers had a labour shortage, they sweetened the deal by paying their employees more. How had that part of the social contract gone out the window?

A lot of this comes back to the same as a lot of social problems like housing. Old people as a group, are living longer, living sicker and needing more care, taking more senior positions in work for longer, living in their houses for longer, being paid pensions for longer. And then we sit back and wonder why taxes are so high instead of acknowledge that they pay for old people's benefits and health care. Wealthy old people who have been at the top for 20 years cant find any money innthe budget for staff, and slag off young people can't get well paid jobs so they can and buy a house and start a family.

Those old people would be furious if they have to sell some of their assets to pay for their health care later in life. It's young people's job to rent a house from an old person and then pay tax to keep that old person in a good pension and with decent health care.

I don't resent paying for old people, but I do resent being called a gobshyte for not having a house by the same people who expect me to pay to keep them in the lifestyle to shich they have become accustomed, but my generation has no realistic chance of having.

If we're going to pay for old peope, and bare the consequences, fine. But let's be honest about it. A bit of gratitude from old people would go a long way too.

Have to agree. Was talking to someone recently whose son is public sector and thinking of leaving for the private sector. I advised her to tell him not to leave. Recession ahead.

I'm public sector and have just moved to a department closer to home.

I didn't even say goodbye.

I think Covid also exposed how well individual companies and managers treated their employees. The poor employers are losing a lot of people. Have a look at Herzbergs 2 factor motivation theory for all the reasons that people leave jobs.

...or simply didnt give a fcuk about those with kids!

People in our company are getting Dublin wages but WFH in Donegal. our American owners can't understand this. UK offices the same, america is even worse.

load of utter tosh and complete ageist post. the retirement age has been set at 65 for a very long time so nothing has changed there. you're just looking for excuses and a reason to blame someone else.

all these older people are the ones who paid their taxes to enable the younger crowd go to free university, free healthcare, childrens benefit etc. and because they're on higher salaries, they're also paying a hell of lot more tax than the younger workers. they build the foundation of what comes next, just like you're going to be building the foundations for those that come after you

your post has the tone of send the old folks off to the choppng block when they're considered of no use anymore.

do people forget they're also going to get old? and it comes a hell of a lot sooner than you think.

It's taken a while to come to fruition but when the first lockdown occurred here in the UK my husband realised that he'd had enough of work. He's pushing 60 and has had a lifetime of 70 and 80+ hour weeks in a job that's hard physical graft.

I never thought I'd see the day my workaholic, dyed in the wool company man would voluntarily retire but here it is. Imminent.

I know everyone's circumstances are different but I do think that lockdown made a lot of people alter their priorities.

Its not your employers problem to care about your childcare situation. Thats your own family, sort it out yourself, you are not entitled to anything from your employers regarding childcare. I hear so many women in my job giving out about returning to work and how unfair it is on their kids etc.

Dont have kids unless you plan adaquete childcare arrangements in advance. As for the OP, yep i find a lot of people leaving my job for different reasons: less stress, wfh, more money, relocating etc. Covid has led to many people wanting a change and actually going through with it too.

There is always a reason not to leave a job but you have to weigh it up and see if its the right thing for you.

That's what I did last year.

Could see a pile of sh1te ahead of us and jumped into the Public Sector for safety. Less money than I was earning in my previous job but I'd rather the security of a Government job.

Must be very disruptive - how would you get stuff done with that sort of changeover at supervising level?

we have encouraged, possible even forced 'atomisation' of our societies and workforce, we reap what we sow!

id argue, we re now starting to experience ideological collapse, and we dont really know what to do about it, hell, most probably havent even accept this possibility yet!

There seems to be a constant drip of people leaving my current job, combined with the legacy of social distancing means Im now barely on first name terms with the majority of my colleagues.Will probably leave myself due to it.