10/04/2021

Ready to join the Great Resignation?

Many people are reevaluating their careers in the wake of COVID-19

Amid the talk of the Great Resignation, people are taking time off to take a "time out."

Cassady Rosenblum wrote of this trend in an essay for The New York Times in which she cited the example of a worker in China who quit his job abruptly, then went home to lie flat in bed. He's posted an image on Baidu (China's version of Google) saying, "Lying Flat is Justice.”

Elsewhere, a recent tweet that begins “i don’t want to have a career” has exceeded 400,000 likes. This issue is personal for Rosenblum, who recently quit her job as a news producer and returned to her parents' home in West Virginia.

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