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Almost four million workers, equivalent to 2.7% of the entire workforce, left their jobs in April 2020.
More than 40 percent of the global workforce is considering changing employers this year.
70 percent of employees want companies to keep flexible remote work options.
The Covid-19 pandemic generated many changes in people’s lives, such as the work environment that many people left by their own means, to undertake in their own dreams. This is the case of a man in Australia who quit his finance job, where he had a salary of 62 thousand dollars, more than a million Mexican pesos, because he was fed up with “garbage meetings” and a terrible corporate culture to work as night cleaner at your local McDonald’s.
Corporate culture, also known by terms such as organizational, institutional or administrative culture, refers to a certain concept of experiences, habits, customs, beliefs, and values, which characterizes a human group and applied to the restricted scope of an organization, institution, administration, corporation, company, or business.
In this sense, this work environment of complying with office hours, wearing business clothes, spending part of your time in meetings, has been rejected by many after the pandemic, where a survey carried out with five thousand people, published in Harvard Business Review, employees want to work from home, on average, 2.5 days a week.
According to the survey, more than 40 percent of employees in the United States would look for another job or simply quit if they had to return to the office full time.
Man tired of ‘corporate nightmare’ resigns
The story of an Australian man who quit his job in the finance industry to work as a night cleaner at your local McDonald’staking a steep pay cut to escape what he called a “corporate nightmare.”
The man identified as Paul is one of many Australians joining the trend. The Great Resignationthat according At least two million people are expected to quit their jobs in the coming months, according to research by Allianz Australia.
Let us remember that the The Great Resignationis the trend that emerged in the United States in the pandemic, where millions of people quit their jobs because they were not satisfied with them.
In that same order, Paul abandoned his lucrative career to escape the “stress” and the feeling of imminent death that lurked on Sunday afternoons. According to the man, he spent 23 years in the financial services industry, but recently stepped down from his role as a team leader in customer service for a major financial company.
“I just got to the point where I was sick of handling people in a way that I wasn’t comfortable with. A lot of the work you do in financial services is just paperwork and million dollar people talking about first world problems,” Paul told local media.
The man said that even though his job in finance was completely remote, he hated the culture he described as one that was driven by punishment rather than education, authoritarian pressure, and forced overtime.
But he says that even though he struggled to get another job, within 10 minutes of applying for a job as a night cleaner at McDonald’s, where he actually had his first job at age 15.
Three weeks ago, he started working at McDonald’s taking a pay cut of almost 50 percent around 33 thousand 242.92 dollars, (660 thousand Mexican pesos).
With this job change, the man says that “job satisfaction has increased and stress has decreased.” “There are no meetings, garbage and pressure to always remember all the rules of corporate language. Just cleaning. If it’s dirty, I clean it,” he added.
But another of his satisfactions is that in this new job he can discount his work outside of his working hours, since in the corporate world, he is never completely disconnected because you have to answer emails, pressures of managing people and how to keep people united in the digital age.
“I come home now and I’m more active around the house and I’m going back to my hobbies as my brain is not exhausted,” he says.
Like this case, many have emerged around the world, where the most common are those who give up their stable jobs to convert and dedicate themselves to creating content on social networks. As an example, a man in the United States who quit his job as a teacher to work as an assistant at a Walmart where he earns 240 thousand pesos more per year.
In conclusion, people currently have new paths to guide their lives, as long as this fulfills them as a person and professionally.
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