One of the after effects of Covid has been the “Great Resignation”…except that it’s not really an after effect. It’s been going for over twenty years. The pandemic merely accelerated a trend that is much more than an artifact of Covid. What we’re experiencing might be called the Great Resignation 2.0,
Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan White House speechwriter Peggy Noonan provides a good executive summary of some basic workforce metrics, and a look back to the real origins of the Great Resignation twenty years ago….and what this long term trend may mean for not just in business and the economy, but for our society as a whole.
