Microsoft predicts over 40% of people may quit their jobs this year

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What you need to know

Spicy annual labor statistics are here to once again validate your aggrievement with your current employer while also reminding you that things aren’t going to change for the better anytime soon. That’s the beauty of the2021 Work Trend Index, which outlines all the usual items you’d expect when hearing from workers in an honest capacity. Additionally, it throws in a few pandemic-themed bones to give 2021’s results a slightly different flavor from labor studies of years prior.

Here are the Work Trend Index’s seven major findings:

Leaders aren’t suffering like the grunts? Work-life balances are in jeopardy because companies love to push their workhorse employees to the bone? Hard to believe as it is, these are the findings of the 2021 Work Trend Index.

“Today, our research shows that 41 percent of the global workforce is likely to consider leaving their current employer within the next year, with 46 percent planning to make a major pivot or career transition,” the report reads, highlighting the consequence of all the items listed above. When people aren’t happy with their place in the current deck of career cards, it seems they’re more likely to try giving it a reshuffle.

For more research brought to the masses by Microsoft, check out its findings on the status oftech support scams in 2021as well as its science-basedconfirmation that workers need breaks.

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