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In a Poll, 43% of Millennials in 36 Countries Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs Within Two Years (qz.com)

Posted by msmash on from the missing-loyalty dept.

A poll by Deloitte with more than 10,000 millennials across 36 countries found that 43% of them are planning to leave their jobs within two years, while only 28% are looking to stay beyond five years.

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  1. Job duration... by b0s0z0ku · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Do most jobs last more than two years in 2018? We're not living in 1958 where someone could go to work for GM or IBM at 21 and work there for 40 years till retirement.

    Employers can fire you at a moment's notice -- why should they expect more loyalty in return?

    1. Re:Job duration... by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you are an excellent employee you can work as long as you want at a company, as long as that company is in business. A company would never fire an excellent employee. They are way too hard to find.

    2. Re:Job duration... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Americans earn more on average, but spend much more of it on healthcare and are at constant risk of bankruptcy from illness. Also, inequality between workers is way higher.

      It's proper that society seeks to create the most collective happiness and good, while respecting fundamental rights. US society is just someone else's boot using your face as a step up.

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  2. Er mah gerd... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...after decades of eliminating long-term employees, companies face employees that do not plan on staying with them!

    Can you imagine that?

    1. Re:Er mah gerd... by HarrySquatter · · Score: 5, Funny

      But you’re supposed to give corporations unrequited loyalty and like it. How dare you expect corporations to have any loyalty to their employees.

  3. Companies don't give raises by rsilvergun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    and they don't train. H1-Bs and outsourcing ended that. So the only way to get ahead is to use your current job as a spring board into something better. And since inflation's still a thing and companies don't give raises you're either getting a new job every two years or taking a substantial pay cut.

    Any pretense of a "social contract" is gone. What I don't understand is why folks don't all get behind Bernie Sanders' New New Deal. It's about time to hammer out a new contract since the ruling class reneged on the old one. And while we're at it we might as well take more for the working class this time.

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  4. Re:Fire anyone who unionizes immediately by stealth_finger · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The commie unions are mini-dictatorships. Freedom means RIGHT TO WORK, but commie union bosses want to force everyone to pay their fees and submit to their control.

    As a manager in a right to work state, I will always fire anyone who threatens to unionize immediately.

    Thankfully, this is no longer the early 20th century and support for right to work is growing. The commie unions are losing their power.

    As a manager you use your power to keep the workers down knowing that there's a long line. Fucks like you are why unions are needed, not as a way for people to get dues. You can't treat your workers like shit if they'll all take the hit and up and out on you. Without the guy doing the actual work you've got fuck all yet most of the time the people doing the work get the smallest piece of pie. Fuck you.

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