{"id":26224,"date":"2021-09-01T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T12:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/?p=26224"},"modified":"2021-09-08T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T07:59:08","slug":"the-great-resignation-a-post-pandemic-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outsourcedacc.co.uk\/blog\/the-great-resignation-a-post-pandemic-exodus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Resignation \u2013 A post-pandemic exodus."},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK faces mass employee exodus post-pandemic.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are several reasons people are seeking a change, in what some economists have dubbed the \u2018Great Resignation\u2019. Britain\u2019s employers are struggling to hire staff as lockdown lifts amid an exodus of overseas workers caused by the Covid pandemic and\u00a0Brexit<\/a>, industry figures reveal.<\/p>\n

Bad leadership, poor employee support and stagnant growth opportunities during the pandemic are driving enormous employee churn in the UK workplace. According to the data, almost half (48 per cent) of UK office workers have specified that they have either found a new role, are actively looking or will be leaving their jobs this year.<\/p>\n

For some workers, the pandemic precipitated a shift in priorities, encouraging them to pursue a \u2018dream job\u2019, or transition to being a stay-at-home parent. But for many, many others, the decision to leave came as a result of the way their employer treated them during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Career \u2018regression\u2019<\/strong>
\n53 per cent specifically cite working from home as having a significantly negative impact on their personal development and progression at work, with over a third (39%) of Brits stating that skills have grown stale or they have regressed in their roles over the course of the pandemic. Alongside this, a further 43 per cent of those surveyed believe that the lack of \u2018face time\u2019 or one-to-one engagement with managers has seriously hindered their promotion prospects. Almost half (48 per cent) commented that their employer has not offered them any opportunities to learn or develop new skills since the globally enforced COVID-19 working from home patterns emerged.<\/p>\n

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Why aren\u2019t we valued and where is the employer support?<\/strong>
\nThe lack of contact has been cited as another key issue leading to the impending job departures, with 62 per cent of office workers frustrated due to little or no support from their managers over the last year. A quarter (24 per cent) also felt undervalued<\/em> as employees. In many cases, progression and promotion were only discussed once in the last year, with 1 in 10 office workers stating this was the case.<\/p>\n

There is a desire to continue remote working that is also mirrored in the attitudes of managers themselves with (40%) saying they would likely look for a new job if they could no longer work from home once restrictions ease.<\/p>\n

More than half (56%) of managers want to work just 1-2 days a week in the workplace and almost three quarters (74%) were not yet concerned that their organisation may consider reducing their salary if they continued to work from home after restrictions were lifted.<\/p>\n

The survey also found there is little trust in either employers\u2019 or the Government regarding return to workplace safety.<\/p>\n

An overwhelming majority of managers (71%) said they trusted scientific advisors rather than employers (14%) or Government (9%) regarding the matter.<\/p>\n

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A summary of key findings from The Beamery Talent Index:<\/p>\n