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The so -called large resignation has become a “great stay”. But experts say that workers not only stay – they are “jobs”.
Job forcover is the act of holding a job “for Dear Life”, wrote consultant from Korn Ferry, an organizational consulting company, last week.
The rate with which the employees voluntarily left their work has decreased by around 2% since the beginning of the year, according to the information from the job offers of the US Ministry of Labor and the Work sales survey of the US Ministry of Labor. Outside of the early days of Covid 19 pandemic, the values have not been so consistently low since the beginning of 2016.
The Quits rate is a barometer for the perception of employees on the wider labor market, said Laura Ullrich, director of business research in North America in action. In this case, you may be nervous to get another job, or are not enthusiastic about your ability to find one, she said.
Current liability is a strong contrast to the historical rate of jobs that employees have issued in 2021 and 2022, but experts say that this makes sense in view of the current labor market trends.
The proportion of job seekers who are “not at all confident” that it rose steadily to 38% in the second quarter three years earlier, according to a quarterly survey from Ziprecruiter, increased to 38%.
“There is this stagnation on the job market in which the settings, end and discharge prices are low,” said Ullrich. “There is not much movement at all.”
“Uncertainty in the world”
“There is some uncertainty in the world – economical, political, global – and I think the uncertainty prompted people to stay in a posture pattern, of course, said Matt Bohn, an advisor for the search for executive at Korn Ferry.
He equated the dynamics of che lighting investors who sometimes sitting on the edge and waiting for an investment option.
The labor market has also gradually cooled down in a regime with higher interest rates, which makes it more expensive for companies to borrow money and expand their business.
The setting rate last year has fallen to the lowest pace for more than a decade (without the early days of the Covid 19 pandemic)-what means that those who want to search for a new job have a relatively difficult time to find one.
Employment growth in the past few months has also slowed down to indicating economists as proof of a broader economic slowdown. The ratio of job offers per unemployed has been around half since the height of around 2: 1 in March 2022. In June 2025 it was about 1-1, the last month of the available federal data.
Other CEOs reported plans to reduce their workforce in the next 12 months than to expand it – for the first time in 2020, according to a quarter survey of the conference committee, which was published at the beginning of this month. The shares were 34% to 27%.
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Although it is not inherently bad to stay in a job for a long time, job “hug” can show some risks for carelessness, experts said.
On the one hand, you may sacrifice a certain profit growth, since change of job generally lend a higher wage growth than those that remain in your current roles, said Ullrich.
For example, employees who feel too comfortable in their current role can stagnate instead of taking on additional responsibility or learning new skills, which can affect marketability and career growth if the labor market improves, said Bohn. Employers can also decide that such employees no longer meet their performance standards, he added.
In addition, a lack of movement on the job market can make new participants such as difficult to find work, said Ullrich.
Correction: This article has been updated to correct the time of the reports of Korn Ferry and Conference Board.