Mental health concerns precede quits: shifts in the work discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic and great resignation.

ABSTRACT: To study the causes of the 2021 Great Resignation, we use text analysis and investigate the changes in work- and quit-related posts between 2018 and 2021 on Reddit. We find that the Reddit discourse evolution resembles the dynamics of the U.S. quit and layoff rates. Furthermore, when the COVID-19 pandemic started, conversations related to working from home, switching jobs, work-related distress, and mental health increased, while discussions on commuting or moving for a job decreased. We distinguish between general work-related and specific quit-related discourse changes using a difference-in-differences method. Our main finding is that mental health and work-related distress topics disproportionally increased among quit-related posts since the onset of the pandemic, likely contributing to

SUBMITTER: Del Rio-Chanona RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10570174 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature