The condensed timeframe in which job candidates may have to make these life-altering career decisions can also add additional pressure, leading workers down a problematic path. Conversely, it’s younger workers who may find themselves caught up in the pizzazz of a company sales pitch.” It’s those who have been in the workforce for longer who are more likely to ask the right questions in an interview. “Quitter’s remorse may not necessarily be regret for leaving the old job, but more a case of finding out a job isn’t actually as advertised. Thurlow says earlier-career employees are most vulnerable to having a position be oversold to them, meaning they’re more likely to eventually regret switching jobs. “But it’s leading to some jobseekers taking roles or working for organisations that don’t meet their needs, meaning they soon experience regret.”
“With the labour market as competitive as it is, we’re seeing many recruiters with flashy sales pitches trying to attract workers with a big pay rise on top,” explains Thurlow. In a 2022 survey by The Muse of more than 2,500 US workers, 72% said their new role or company was very different from what they had been led to believe, with nearly half stating they would try to get their old job back as a result. Thurlow says digitised recruitment and hybrid-working environments can make it harder for employees to discern important structural issues, such as a company’s work culture, during the interview process. But while many of these would-be employers are dangling different types of perks in front of jobseekers, workers may be missing some of the red flags. Many workers are being tempted to change jobs due to this intense scramble for candidates, says Shayla Thurlow, of online employee-advice platform The Muse, based in New York City. Other countries are feeling the squeeze, too in the UK, this worker movement has created a record number of vacancies. It's helped to spark a hiring crisis that's seeing great competition for talent. But is this phenomenon truly greater than ever? Or may quitter's remorse simply be part of the job?įor nearly a year, around four million US workers have quit their jobs every month, often for better pay or roles that align more with their values. Such figures imply that large swaths of the workforce now regret joining the Great Resignation, and that they may have made their decision to leave their job in haste. Likewise, employees also expressed remorse for their new role: only 26% of job-switchers stated they liked it enough to stay a third reported they had already begun searching for a new role. Increasingly, some workers are finding they quit their job with great gusto – but didn’t necessarily end up in a better situation.Īccording to a March survey of around 2,000 US workers who quit their job in the past two years, about one in five said they regretted doing so. But in hindsight, not everyone is pleased with their decisions. Much of the narrative around the Great Resignation has focused on people who have made inspired decisions to jump ship for other opportunities, re-craft their careers for a better work-life balance or drop out of the workforce entirely. It felt like I'd taken a step back in my career.” By my second day at work, I was deeply regretting the choice I’d made. “Looking back, I was tempted to move based on over-promises made by my new boss, who was desperate to hire anybody. “There were many positives at my old employer – it wasn't easy to leave,” she explains. Soon, Lucy began to question her decision to change jobs. “It was actually much more admin based, and there was high staff turnover.” “During the on-boarding process, I realised my role had been oversold,” she says.
But even in her first week, her day-to-day experiences didn’t match what her boss had promised in the recruitment stage. “I was promised I’d be working on bigger and better things, collaborating with more high-profile clients.”Īfter struggling to make up her mind whether to accept the position, Lucy eventually opted to take the new job. “At my interview, I was told the role would be a complete step-up from my current work,” says Lucy, whose surname is being withheld for job-security concerns. Not only would the London-based creative-services manager be given a more flexible working arrangement, but she’d also seemingly be granted greater career opportunities – as well as a healthy pay rise.
#QUIT MY JOB UPGRADE#
When Lucy was offered a full-time remote position at a digital publication agency, it felt like an upgrade on her current role.
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