Ultimately, Villareal decided she’d rather quit and start over in a totally new industry than remain in a job where she felt she was being under-valued and unheard. She felt her concerns weren’t being addressed, or even heard. (In the US, private schools, governed by different rules, were able to return to in-person learning much sooner than public schools.) Villareal was uncomfortable about her safety, and saw her stress and workload spike when she was juggling both in-person and remote learners concurrently. That was the case for Villareal, who found herself back in the classroom after only a short closure. But for many, many others, the decision to leave came as a result of the way their employer treated them during the pandemic. For some workers, the pandemic precipitated a shift in priorities, encouraging them to pursue a ‘dream job’, or transition to being a stay-at-home parent. There are a number of reasons people are seeking a change, in what some economists have dubbed the ‘Great Resignation’. In the US alone, April saw more than four million people quit their jobs, according to a summary from the Department of Labor – the biggest spike on record.
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A Microsoft survey of more than 30,000 global workers showed that 41% of workers were considering quitting or changing professions this year, and a study from HR software company Personio of workers in the UK and Ireland showed 38% of those surveyed planned to quit in the next six months to a year. People like Villareal are leaving their jobs – or thinking about it – in droves. Now, just over a year later, she’s left teaching entirely, to work in industrial design at a large beauty company. When the pandemic began, Melissa Villareal was teaching history to middle schoolers at a private school in a wealthy California neighborhood.
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