More young employees are quitting their jobs: Survey by Microsoft Corp

A year into the Great Resignation spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic, more employees are considering quitting their jobs now than in 2021, according to a survey by Microsoft Corp, which also found that more than half of younger workers are mulling a job change within the next year.

Microsoft’s second annual Worker Trend Index, which examines global employee attitudes, showed an increase in respondents who said they are somewhat or extremely likely to consider a job change in the coming year. The overall number jumped to 43 per cent of respondents, up from 41 per cent in last year’s survey—a result that Microsoft at the time dubbed the Great Reshuffle.

Among Gen Z and millennials, or workers under age 41, 52 per cent in Microsoft’s poll said they might switch jobs, while only 35 per cent of the older Gen Xers and baby boomers said they were thinking of leaving their workplaces.