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The Leadership Line
Manager’s Newsletter
March 2022
The Great Resignation
The Great Resignation is an informal name for the widespread trend of a significant number of workers
leaving their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is thought to be the result of many different factors,
notably workers’ dissatisfaction with current working conditions and personal reassessments of career
and lifestyle due to the changes and hardships of the pandemic.
When we talk about the Great Resignation, there are actually two dimensions to this:
The Great Professional Resignation: Employees are leaving their jobs because employers are forcing
them to come back to the office and not allowing them to work from home. In some cases, employees are
leaving because they do not offer a “work from anywhere” perk (especially if competitors do offer work
from anywhere).
The Great Geographic Resignation: Work from anywhere is becoming a reality where employees are
migrating physically to other parts of the U.S. and other countries, be it temporarily (e.g., a few months
abroad) or permanently (e.g., to be closer to family).
