Is the Rise of Anti-Work Taking Over Reddit?

[kyphysics]

There've been myriad stories about "The Great Resignation" over the past year and here was a recent spin-off take called, the rise of "Anti-Work":





These were just a few posts from a lengthy and very interesting Twitter thread. See full thread for details.

Am I the only person seeing this sentiment rising everywhere around me. I've spoken to lots of people who've experienced this. Here is the Reddit anti-work page: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/

*thread title is an obvious play on words of the "Reddit Attacks Wall Street" thread - not suggesting the workers are necessarily wrong here*

 

[kyphysics]

Employees are quitting jobs at an all-time high:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/employees-quitting-jobs-time-high-012215555.html

 

[kyphysics]

From the Reddit anti-work page:


Very powerful image!

 

[tkav1980]

I work in sales for a human capital management software platform company.
The common thread during the great resignation is employees have access to information. Companies that provide better perks than jeans on friday and invest in engaging their employees, providing a good work/life balance, better pay and benefits are growing at this time.
Paycor, which just went public in june has seen a nearly 100% increase in employees and record sales by eating their own food and using the analytics to make business decisions that benefit the employees. This increased employee engagement and productivity to all time highs in their 30 year existence.

I speak with CFO's and HR leaders on a weekly basis and the consensus among companies that are winning the talent war is that investing in their internal customers( employees) had paid a much higher return on investment that investing in attracting outside customers. Happy and engaged employees for a business between 250 and 10000 employees produce roughly 2 million USD more in revenue for the organization over an average tenure of 5 years.

Compounding that with decreased costs associated with recruiting and training replacements and the net gain per employee over 5 years averages a little over 2.5 million USD.