What is interesting about your comment is that absolves companies of any responsibilities for the Great Resignation. Let’s address each claim.

#1. Claims that people are just leaving the workforce because they're over the age of 55 and they were going to leave the workforce anyway. That Boomer generation does not represent a large amount of the workforce and the data shows they haven’t represented a large amount of the workforce for decades. It is predominately made up of Gen X, Millenials, and Gen Z’s.

#2. What? The Great Resignation is representing every sector of the economy, including tech, healthcare, manufacturing, education, finance, retail: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.t04.htm

So, I have no idea what you are talking about. Undocumented workers aren’t in tech, healthcare, education, finance, retail, so this argument does not hold water.

#3. The mismatch of skills is true in some cases, but also employers aren’t being open to bringing in staff from other sectors that can be trained for jobs in their sector. Employers have created toxic work environments, having staff leave, and then not being picky in hiring staff.

#4. According to the Great Attrition study done by McKinsey (https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/great-attrition-or-great-attraction-the-choice-is-yours), Employers believe the reasons for people quitting is more transactional than transformational. Employees think just offering higher pay & slightly better benefits and then people will come back miss the entire point as to why people are leaving. People are leaving because of those reasons, as well as employers not providing their staff autonomy, having toxic management, employees feeling exploited or taken advantage of. These reasons have to do with management fixing the toxic work environments that currently exist. If they don’t address this issue, they will continue a revolving door of people quitting.

I wrote this article because the first step for companies is to understand the problem and take responsibility for their actions in it. If they aren’t willing to do this, their Great Resignation will last even longer.