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The ‘Great Resignation’ Myth (CONT’D FROM PAGE 24)

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employee expectations, and the availability of hybrid ar- rangements, will continue to fuel the rise in attrition,” said Garner senior director Piers Hudson. “Employees pick a place to work not just for rational reasons, like compensation or benefits, but emotional and social reasons, like, ‘That’s where my friends are,’” Kropp told Axios. The new work-from-anywhere culture, besides weakening our attachment to the offices, also weakens around attachment to our work friends and, in turn, weak- ens our attachment to our employers. But while all this research is sound—and all these ex- planations plausible—to me, they miss the larger point. As longtime readers of The Nonlinear Life know, I’ve spent the last four years collecting nearly 400 life stories of ev- eryday Americans. Those numbers include more than 150 stories in the last year about people’s work lives. The overarching headline from those stories is that people are wresting control of their lives back from exter- nal forces—whether those forces are parental expecta- tions, societal pressures, or, yes, employer demands. We are reclaiming the right to write our own stories. This change has not happened overnight. If anything, it’s been growing for decades, as the steady escalation in the quit rate shows. The number of job quitters won’t go up indefinitely; external circumstances make fluctuation al-

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