For any young worker who needs to hear this, your power in the labour market won’t last and quietly quitting could be setting you up to get loudly fired, says Allison Schrager for Bloomberg Opinion.
, Switzerland, last week, there was the normal buzz about economic conditions and climate change. But everyone I spoke with mainly wanted to talk about something else: How the pandemic has changed the labour market, and especially how it has affected Gen Z.
The logo of the World Economic Forum 2023 is seen at Davos Congress Centre in Switzerland on Jan 16, 2023. . The labour market sounds a lot like the Woody Allen joke: The food is terrible and there is so little of it.What struck me as extraordinary is that this change in the workforce is happening globally. Business leaders from the United States to Germany and Japan all had the same complaints.
This change caused lots of unease and complaints from employers, too. Economic historian Joel Mokyr says that factories initially hired women and children because they were more compliant and adaptable. It may have created the current labour shortages that are giving workers more power, though it’s not clear why this is happening in every country. In the US, labour force participation fell and there is less legal immigration, so there are fewer workers.Related:Another explanation is that there is more demand for labour. Many countries already had historically low unemployment.
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