Unreal! About half of millennials and 75 percent of Gen Zers have quit their jobs for mental health reasons!!!

[morgan]

About half of millennials and 75 percent of Gen Zers have quit their jobs for mental health reasons, according to a new study conducted by Mind Shares Partners, SAP and Quatrics. It was published in Harvard Business Review.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/y ... g-jobs-why

[ReadingRainbow]

Quit *a* job over mental health reasons...


If a job is too stressful, dangerous or has a verbally abusive boss - and doesn’t pay you enough for it... you should quit and find a better job.

[morgan]

About half of millennials and 75 percent of Gen Zers have quit their jobs for mental health reasons, according to a new study conducted by Mind Shares Partners, SAP and Quatrics. It was published in Harvard Business Review.

[ReadingRainbow]

Per the link- who said they’ve voluntarily left a job in order to prioritize their mental health...

[Fourmonkeys]

Quit *a* job over mental health reasons...


If a job is too stressful, dangerous or has a verbally abusive boss - and doesn’t pay you enough for it... you should quit and find a better job.

Yeah. My husband's a Millennial. But he worked at one place where he said it was toxic and a hostile work environment. The people made racist, sexist, and homophobic jokes all the time. There were pedophile and dead baby jokes, and there was a general pressure to be a culture fit and laugh/go along with it.

He quit for his own mental health. And it turned out to be a great thing.

[sockpuppet]

About half of millennials and 75 percent of Gen Zers have quit their jobs for mental health reasons, according to a new study conducted by Mind Shares Partners, SAP and Quatrics. It was published in Harvard Business Review.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/y ... g-jobs-why

Considering the numbers
"43.8 million people
In the United States, almost half of adults (46.4 percent) will experience a mental illness during their lifetime. 5 percent of adults (18 or older) experience a mental illness in any one year, equivalent to 43.8 million people.Feb 6, 2019"
5 Surprising Mental Health Statistics - Mental Health First Aid
https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org › 2019/02 › 5-surprising-mental-health-.

Kudos to them for taking care of themselves. And if industries care about retaining their workers, skilled ones at that, they will work to strive for a better industry standard.

[xsxpxixdxexrxsx]

I quit a job for my mental health. I got every second weekend off and I worked 12 hour days all week and they were still calling me in between shifts and on my weekend off. I had almost no time for anything, even my family. It got to the point where I would turn my personal phone off and not turn it on unless I was at work. It was the right thing to do.

[Carpy]

I am not at all surprised by this.

[sheramom4]

Quit *a* job over mental health reasons...


If a job is too stressful, dangerous or has a verbally abusive boss - and doesn’t pay you enough for it... you should quit and find a better job.

Yeah. My husband's a Millennial. But he worked at one place where he said it was toxic and a hostile work environment. The people made racist, sexist, and homophobic jokes all the time. There were pedophile and dead baby jokes, and there was a general pressure to be a culture fit and laugh/go along with it.

He quit for his own mental health. And it turned out to be a great thing.

I am a Gen Xer and quit a job for similar reasons. It was terrible! I told my husband I would gladly go back to my teenage years job at KFC before I would walk back into the airport and work for this company again. A manager even told me at one point that I had not "earned the right" to speak to my co-workers and to not even say "Hi" because they didn't have to associate with new hires.
The training portion was at headquarters in a different state and it was amazing! The location I worked at was pure hell for the two months I was there.

[Francee89]

Is it unreal? Boomers and traditionalists were way more likely to have loyalty to a company (likely because companies were historically more loyal to their employees), while millennials and Gen Zers are more likely to value work/life balance and often don’t take jobs anticipating they’ll spend years or an entire career there.

Like, John Smith might have toughed out an entry level role in a terrible work environment at Company XYZ sixty years ago anticipating he’d spend a career making a middle class salary there. If a millennial or Gen Zer can find a comparable entry level role at a comparable company with a better work environment when they didn’t anticipate on working at either forever anyway, they’re more likely to move than Boomers or Traditionalists were. It’s a generational difference but not necessarily a bad thing.