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08/21/2025

"Job-hugging" Rises as Uncertainty Slows Job-hopping

The trend has resulted in a "quits rate" of about 2 percent

The so-called great resignation has become the “great stay.” But experts say workers aren’t just staying — they’re “job hugging.”

Job hugging is the act of holding onto a job “for dear life,” consultants at Korn Ferry, an organizational consulting firm, wrote last week.

The rate at which workers are voluntarily leaving their jobs — known as the quits rate — has hovered around 2 percent since the start of the year, according to data from the U.S. Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey. Outside of the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic, levels haven’t been that consistently low since early 2016.

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