To be sure, many workers who are subject to these agreements stay long enough to avoid any fees when they quit. They've expanded to industries like nursing and trucking, where industry representatives called them "increasingly ubiquitous" and "particularly egregious." These repayment provisions first sprouted in the 1990s, when they were more common in higher-paying industries like finance, but they've "really taken off" in the last five to ten years, Harris told Bloomberg. Truck drivers, nurses, and pet groomers are facing payments when they quit TRAPs - which deter workers from leaving too soon and hit their wallets if they do so - are one way some businesses have pushed back. While this might be good news for workers who have chosen to pursue greener pastures, it's been challenging for employers who say their time and money spent on training are wasted when workers walk out the door. This was up nearly 10% versus the prior year as of March and remains elevated today. Over the last several years, there's been an increase in not just quitting, but " quick quitting" - leaving one's job after less than 12 months, according to LinkedIn data. "Employers are looking for ways to keep their workers from quitting without raising wages or improving working conditions," Jonathan Harris, an associate law professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, told Reuters. The Student Borrower Protection Center estimated in July that these agreements are prevalent in industries that collectively employ over one-third of US private-sector workers. Most prevalent in the healthcare, trucking, and retail industries, these agreements can cost quitting workers thousands of dollars. These provisions, or " TRAPS" as critics calls them, require workers to reimburse their employer for some of their job training costs if they quit too soon. Nearly 10% of US workers are covered by training repayment agreement provisions, according to a study from the Cornell Survey Research Institute, first reported on by Reuters. Now some businesses are trying to make it more costly for employees to join the Great Resignation. For if you give any serious consideration to the content of this book, chances are you’ll gain interesting insights about what to do-as the subtitle of the book itself says-to close the gap between your day job and your dream job.Companies have grappled with labor shortages over the last few years as workers have quit at near-record rates. This means that the book reads easily but is not easily dismissed. He does so in a way I find both entertaining and intriguing. For example, at the very beginning he shares his insights about how to make what he calls the reverse superman-no, this has nothing to do with Bizarro. At least, not from the author’s perspective.īesides, the author has managed to keep a style that while lighthearted is never too informal. The parts of this book I found particularly enlightening were those which looked at the way we should look at our day job and at the importance of defining as clearly as possible what success is for us. But this is most likely because those were the areas of my life I had never examined in depth before. Indeed, reading this book I often thought about a quite famous quote: the harder I work, the luckier I get. The magic is all of that kind that usually tends to happen when one has a good plan in place, sufficient flexibility to adapt it to changing situations, and an adamant work ethic. Of course, there is no magic pill in here. In fact in Quitter Jon Acuff shows us how to work out a way to make the tension between our day job and our dream not just bearable, but proficuous. A change of perspectiveįor those of us who have instead to ‘create’ the time to work on their dream job, I really believe this book is a must. Yet we’d better be prepared to some aspects of our dream job that could, so to speak, throw us all out of balance and send us back to square one. For example about how to make sure your dream job lasts as long as possible.īut a dream job is for life! you scream. However, even in such a case you could gain some damn interesting insights from it. I mean, if you’re still at school or for whatever other reason don’t have to reconcile your dream job with your actual day job-probably because they’re the same-you could probably skip this book. Though to me the title doesn’t seem particularly inspiring, not certainly evocative of a dream job, I must say that this is one of those few how-to books that I actually consider helpful. I’ve just finished reading Quitter by Jon Acuff.
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