You’ve probably heard of “quiet quitting,” the trend that saw employees doing the bare minimum of work and silently checking out of jobs they didn’t enjoy but financially needed. Then came “loud quitting,” which is essentially what it says: making a lot of noise about why they’re walking. But now, workers are so frustrated with
Carol Graham built her career on measuring happiness. Lately, the numbers keep pulling her somewhere darker. “I used to work on happiness and I seem to work more on despair now,” she told Fortune. “So that’s not great, but that’s the state we’re in.” Graham is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings
It’s every worker’s dream: You work hard and climb the ladder until eventually you’re rewarded with an executive title and cushy salary to go with it. But according to Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington, the reality isn’t quite as glamorous as it looks—and plenty of CEOs, she says, are desperate to quit, despite seemingly having
For nearly 50 years, one number barely moved. Every year or two, the General Social Survey asks Americans how happy they are, and for decades the balance between “very happy” and “not too happy” held steady, from 1972 through 2018. But as soon as the pandemic hit, it came cratering down. Sam Peltzman, an economist
