{"id":31266,"date":"2021-12-09T21:44:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dvirc.org\/insights\/its-not-the-great-resignation-its-actually-the-great-recognition\/"},"modified":"2023-03-08T14:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:01:23","slug":"its-not-the-great-resignation-its-actually-the-great-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dvirc.org\/insights\/its-not-the-great-resignation-its-actually-the-great-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not \u201cThe Great Resignation.\u201d It\u2019s Actually \u201cThe Great Recognition.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written By:\u00a0Matt Fieldman<\/a><\/p>\n

Some are calling it, \u201cThe Great Resignation<\/a>.\u201d Others are calling it \u201cThe Great Reshuffle<\/a>.\u201d After spending the past year as Executive Director of\u00a0America Works<\/a>, I\u2019ve talked with more than 250 manufacturing workforce development professionals throughout the\u00a0MEP National NetworkTM<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0and our partners. Based on their insights, I\u2019d like to propose a new name: \u201cThe Great Recognition<\/strong>.\u201d As I\u2019ll discuss in this post, employees, employers, and workforce development practitioners nationwide are all recognizing either new trends, or the amplification of existing ones, that are disrupting the American workforce in ways that are here to stay. By pivoting from \u2018The Great Resignation\u2019 \u2013 a negative term that implies that the problem lies with lazy workers \u2013 to \u2018The Great Recognition,\u2019 which captures how both employers and employees are learning and evolving, we as a nation can begin to directly address these challenges and take action to fill the 900,000 open jobs in manufacturing right now.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what you call it, the numbers are staggering: In August alone, 4.3 million workers quit their job. According to\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, \u201cU.S. workers left their jobs nearly 20 million times between April and August this year, according to the latest federal data, a number more than 60% higher than the resignations handed in during the same period last year, and 12% above the spring and summer of 2019 when the job market was the hottest it had been in almost 50 years.\u201d According to\u00a0Business Insider<\/em><\/a>, \u201cJob transitions among Gen Z are up 80% year-over-year. For Millennials, they’re up by 50%.\u201d<\/p>\n

So why am I proposing we think of this moment in history as \u201cThe Great Recognition?\u201d Let\u2019s start with workers, as employees nationwide are realizing:<\/p>\n