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I'd like to share a link to an article but here is a small snippet of it first:

Companies spent decades demanding total loyalty from employees while treating them as if they were disposable. The 'Great Resignation' is payback time.​


A manager at one of my first jobs once told me that they "threw people under the bus and drove it too." The moment has stuck with me ever since — a comment so flippantly cruel that it was branded on my brain. When I asked the manager what they meant, they said that lower-level employees' responsibility was to make managers look good and, as my manager also explained, take the blame and "get in trouble" when things went wrong. We were, in other words, supposed to give our all for the company and take a dive for it if necessary. That was the moment I realized company loyalty was a one-way street.

I've heard many similar stories from my newsletter readers about managers and executives who weren't simply disloyal, but considered their employees interchangeable. They demanded loyalty, but gave none in return. Whenever I read or write about the Great Resignation, these stories always come to mind.

Great Resignation is focused on the loyalty that companies expect from their employees and the collective shock among management when that loyalty dries up. Companies' lack of compassion, investment, and commitment to their staffs has been laid bare during the pandemic. And now employers are terrified, because employees are realizing a fact that companies have understood for years, but tried to hide: Work is an exchange of labor for money. It is a transaction, not a relationship."

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