On the heels of the so-called Great Resignation, the next big workplace trend may be the Great Boomerang, as nearly 1 in 5 people who quit during the Covid pandemic have already gone back to the job they left, according to 2022 research from payroll firm UKG.
This “boomerang employee” trend could pick up further steam as workplaces slowly return to pre-Covid normalcy, career experts told Make It’s Goh Chiew Tong.
“To start, a lot of us were thrown into a sort of shock when Covid hit and decided to leave previously tolerable employers for options we hoped would give us more control, more money or just some different ‘scenery,'” said Brad Harris, a management and human resources professor at HEC Paris.
Now that things are returning to normal, “our old gigs might look a little better,” he said.