Many employees have had enough and will no longer endure poor working conditions and wrongdoing in the workplace.

The UK along with countries overseas have witnessed the Great Resignation, with people in a post-pandemic environment choosing not to go back to their old jobs and ways of working.

Sanjay Raja, chief UK economist at Deutsche Bank, has been quoted as saying there are “historically elevated levels of workers leaving the labour market entirely” with the level of resignations being the highest since 2009.

A report just prior to the pandemic, from the Film and TV Charity’s ‘Looking Glass research’, suggested 56% of employees believed they had suffered bullying in the previous year.

When you look at Google search results and see there are 20,000 searches per year for how to cope with ‘bullying in the workplace’ in the UK.

So, it’s more than possible that some of the Great Resignation results from employees simply not being prepared to go back into those same poor working conditions.

It is no exaggeration to say Covid-19 has changed everything. The enforced isolation also provided a breathing-space for employees to rethink their life. Many have taken a premeditated, thought-through decision to change how they want to live and work. This led to what has been termed the Great Resignation and which has become the Great Attrition.

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