Young college-educated men are the main components of the wave of “dropouts” sweeping through American workplaces, new research shows, shedding more light on the new workplace culture sparked by the pandemic.
University of Washington researchers have found that between 2019 and 2022, men aged 25 to 39 will work 16 fewer hours a year than they did before the pandemic, while men with at least a college degree will work 14 fewer hours per year. The middle.
Overall, the group with the highest wages and longest hours worked the longest hours.
All US workers will work 11 fewer hours a year between 2019 and 2022 than they did before the pandemic. By gender, between 2019 and 2022, men’s annual working hours will be reduced by 16 hours and women’s by 6 hours, while men’s average working hours will usually be longer than women’s.
Silent resignations (also known as silent resignations) are popular in the United States and even in the global workplace. People who pursue this mindset are not negligent, but they clearly reject the workaholic culture and extra overtime. They are more focused on completing their work rather than pursuing promotion and fame. , to rethink the meaning of work-life balance.
Research from the University of Washington points out that while economic downturns and resulting layoffs in businesses usually also lead to a decline in working hours, the recession triggered by the COVID-19 outbreak is different from previous ones: people are working less hours why not have more choices Flexible schedules or occupations.
“The reduction in working hours is likely to continue,” said study authors Dain Lee, Jinhyeok Park and Yongseok Shin, titled “Where are the Workers? From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting.”
According to data cited by the authors of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) study, working hours in the United States are still higher than in other advanced countries, with an average of 1,791 hours per worker in 2021 , surpassing Japan , Canada and the United Kingdom.
