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Speaker 1: Job Mission with Jones and Amanda, Let's talk about a

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Speaker 1: phenomenon called the Great resignation, and Australia has been told

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Speaker 1: to brace for this. Other industrialized countries that have come

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Speaker 1: out of lockdown have had this. In August, four and

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Speaker 1: a half million Americans quit their job. Some left the

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Speaker 1: workforce entirely, others wanted to work part time. People are

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Speaker 1: finding it hard to fill positions. That's happening already in Australia,

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Speaker 1: and as I said, it's called the Great resignation, the

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Speaker 1: exodus of workers, and it's created hiring challenges for companies.

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Speaker 1: Have left millions of jobs unfilled. People are saying they

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Speaker 1: plan to look for a new job in the coming year.

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Speaker 1: They want adjustable working hours, they want to work remotely.

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Speaker 1: Working women have faced an additional burden juggling childcare duties

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Speaker 1: at home with their own jobs, and are looking for

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Speaker 1: a life change. So Australia is told to expect the

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Speaker 1: same thing as they say here. For many of us,

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Speaker 1: it will feel like we're reaching the finishing line of

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Speaker 1: a marathon, coming out of this two years of hell,

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Speaker 1: then being asked to start a triathlon. Because many companies

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Speaker 1: are gearing back up we need to get going. Come on,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. I think in our exuberance of opening

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Speaker 1: up and been able to go to restaurants and pubs

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Speaker 1: and see friends, we forget that psychologically a lot of

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Speaker 1: us are feeling like we're carrying an anvil. We can't

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Speaker 1: underestimate the stress that we've all been under, the unrelenting

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Speaker 1: pressure on people who are already burnt out and psychologically

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Speaker 1: damaged now being asked to ramp up and head back

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Speaker 1: to work. So it will lead to a big movement,

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Speaker 1: as they're saying, it could be the biggest movement of

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Speaker 1: talent that Australia and the rest of the world has

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Speaker 1: ever seen. And a number of things are about this.

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Speaker 1: People are saying, we haven't spent any money, haven't been

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Speaker 1: on holidays, so therefore maybe both of us don't need

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Speaker 1: to work. Maybe we're burnt out, we want to live

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Speaker 1: somewhere outside the city that we're living in. Maybe people

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Speaker 1: are pushing for a four day work week and bosses

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Speaker 1: have been told to brace for people saying they want that,

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Speaker 1: and also for younger people. I read article yesterday. Younger

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Speaker 1: people research is showing want to just get out and

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Speaker 1: live and the advice to employees employers is go easy

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Speaker 1: on them. If you go hard on them, you'll lose

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Speaker 1: them forever. Give them three weeks, give them a break,

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Speaker 1: and you'll have your employees back. But people are putting

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Speaker 1: their happiness first. They're deciding that they want to reclaim life,

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Speaker 1: and they've done a lot of thinking in the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: So the great resignation, it's a very interesting phenomenon. We

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Speaker 1: might talk about that in the Tribal drama. How are

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Speaker 1: you changing your life? Do you want to change your

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Speaker 1: life as a boss? Are you're seeing your employees as

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Speaker 1: different humans? After all this we have inexplicably changed in

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Speaker 1: the two years we've been in this pandemic, and heading

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Speaker 1: back to work isn't as simple as it seems. Are

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Speaker 1: you bucking for a Friday off? As you say? I

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Speaker 1: say this, you know how there's been a big exodus

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Speaker 1: at the ABC. Wendy Harmer, her show's finishing up. Also,

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Speaker 1: we've had fran Kelly finishing up at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year on the ABC, and I saw that we

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Speaker 1: need to Philip said, all these fabulous women bailing d

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Speaker 1: to crushing hours reminds me of something that Ellen Fanning

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Speaker 1: said to me once in makeup. Most women our age

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Speaker 1: just near need a year off. I just thought, yep,

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Speaker 1: well you can't ye but this, and I'm not going

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Speaker 1: to take a year off. But this is how people

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Speaker 1: are feeling tired and want to do things differently, and

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Speaker 1: has proven that we can work from home. Yeah, that's right.

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Speaker 1: So we do need to hope that bosses are looking

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Speaker 1: at this or you're going to lose your people, because

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Speaker 1: this has happened in every country around the world when

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Speaker 1: they've come out of lockdown and they're expecting it. Here,

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Speaker 1: I'm going the other way. I'm going to work seven

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Speaker 1: days twenty four to seven. I'm going to become a machine. Well,

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Speaker 1: I notice you've got to break this silence somehow. What

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Speaker 1: do you mean. I don't know. I'm off for a

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Speaker 1: you talk to the hand, Brendan, Well, I'd miss you.

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Speaker 1: I know I'm not going anywhere, but I think we

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Speaker 1: might talk about this with a tribal drum because it's

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Speaker 1: a very interesting phenomenon. Of course, it is Jonesy and

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Speaker 1: Amanda's gamination