A YouTube video by Alli Peck discussing a New York Times article about the 'Great Resignation' and whether worker power can endure. The speaker introduces data linking recent quitting waves to higher pay, staffing shortages, unemployment, interest rates, 'quiet quitting', retirements among baby boomers, and Gen Z entering the workforce, and intends to walk through the article's key points.
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Welcome back. Today we're going over a really interesting and relevant article by the New York Times titled the Great Resignation Is Can Workers Power Endure? Somebody sent me this article. Thank you. To the friend that sent this to me. I read it this morning. And the data they present here makes a lot of things make sense with regard to unemployment, interest rates, quiet quitting, boomers, retiring, Gen Z entering the workforce. So we're going to go over some of that right now. Let's get into the article. The first part of this article reads, tens of millions of Americans have changed jobs over the past two years, a tidal wave of quitting that reflected and helped create a rare moment of worker power as employees demanded higher pay and as employers short or staff often gave it to them.