A short YouTube news segment (Dec 2021) about the 'QuitTok' phenomenon: employees posting public resignations on TikTok and prioritizing happiness and mental health over pay or traditional employer expectations. The piece includes participant testimony (Swetha Ragmi), expert commentary and caution from Debby Carreau (Inspired HR), and data claims about hashtag reach and Canadian intent-to-leave rates.
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This is me one hour before I quit my corporate job. This is me three minutes before I quit my corporate job.
Quick talk. A trend online where employees are quitting their jobs to focus on happiness and mental health, then celebrating by posting it on social media. Specifically TikTok, where hashtag I quit my job has over 194 million views.
So many people are leaving because of happiness and fulfillment. And over the course, I think of the last 20, 21 months, people have had the opportunity to reflect on what's important to them, who they want to spend time with, does their work align with their values. And many people have kind of said my work's not working for me anymore and I want to do something different.
And there are employers out there who have an expectations with the BlackBerry is an iPhone and laptop. So people don't like it anymore because they realize, hey, I want to spend time with the family, so I don't care how much you pay, but if there's no work life balance, I'm going to quit. And people are celebrating that it's not about pay cut, it's not about getting more money anymore. It's all about, you know, what, I need better. I'm worth more than what you, you know, it's more like I'm going to go somewhere that I am celebrated.
We saw it start to pick up at beginning of March is really where my team started to see a significant increase in our clients calling us and saying, oh my goodness, my staff are quitting. I have all these open positions. The data shows us that in Canada, you even now going into 2022, over half of Canadians are planning on making a change. So that's really significant. And there are no signs of it slowing down.
And while the movement is focused around regaining happiness and mental health, Debbie Carew, CEO and founder of Inspired hr, still cautions people who want to take part in the trend to think of their future careers.
We're really seeing more and more people that are publicly resigning or talking negatively about their employers, which not only in the moment, maybe it's fun and you can be creative on TikTok or I quit my job hashtag on Twitter. But you have to think about the long term implications for that.
Swetha Ragmi, who decided to quit her job and pursue her own business, seen here on TikTok providing support to those pursuing new careers, says she's never looked back.
I didn't feel like I was supported entirely. It was more kind of like interrogations, hey, like, why are you taking stress leave kind of thing. Right. So I think that's where the support comes in. Quitters are not failures. I think it's just pleasing your soul. And, you know, that's what the great resignation is. It's all about self realizations.
And you'd be okay in Montreal, Felicia, Adam, Sydney News.
