When I left my last job , they split my work between four of my colleagues and also had to replace me with a new employee. I left because I was doing the jobs of too many people and had like a dozen bosses.
It's been a slow burn of this for years, but the Covid fiasco has given a lot of near-retirees reason to call it good and move on all at once. Not to mention that the capitalist economic system specifically disincentivizes workers from staying and building experience at a job in its current form, so you have people (professionals, but others too) constantly bouncing around all over the place cause it's the only way to get a substantial raise, which is obviously very efficient at scale.
This may be it. Before covid, my gf was noticing more and more people quit, and their job duties just got parceled up and distributed to people who still worked there; lots of hemorrhaging without replacement.
But now that those people have quit, turns out people are demanding at least 75% of a living wage to do 3 peoples’ jobs, so they’re not filling these overworked and poorly paid positions.
At least, that’s plausible, given how I’d been viewing (office, petty size firm) labor before the pandemic.
One person who knows what they are doing quits and they have to hire more people.
When I left my last job , they split my work between four of my colleagues and also had to replace me with a new employee. I left because I was doing the jobs of too many people and had like a dozen bosses.
It's been a slow burn of this for years, but the Covid fiasco has given a lot of near-retirees reason to call it good and move on all at once. Not to mention that the capitalist economic system specifically disincentivizes workers from staying and building experience at a job in its current form, so you have people (professionals, but others too) constantly bouncing around all over the place cause it's the only way to get a substantial raise, which is obviously very efficient at scale.
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so its sorta like the more productive laborers moved on and they have to now pay for the surplus value they were previously exploiting.
This may be it. Before covid, my gf was noticing more and more people quit, and their job duties just got parceled up and distributed to people who still worked there; lots of hemorrhaging without replacement.
But now that those people have quit, turns out people are demanding at least 75% of a living wage to do 3 peoples’ jobs, so they’re not filling these overworked and poorly paid positions.
At least, that’s plausible, given how I’d been viewing (office, petty size firm) labor before the pandemic.