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