Recent Examples on the WebIn 2022 and 2023, Boeing trimmed 2,000 white-collar jobs but roughly another 15,000 employees left of their own accord, company financial filings show, many of them engineers and manufacturing workers, in a combination of retirements and job-hopping in a hot market for skilled labor.—Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024 Others have been job-hopping or fighting for higher wages.—Emma Goldberg, New York Times, 22 Oct. 2023 Fed Chair Jerome Powell has expressed hope that hiring would moderate in the least painful way possible — with fewer vacancies and less job-hopping rather than through layoffs.—Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023 Fewer people job-hopping could help restrain wage inflation.—Reuters, NBC News, 29 Aug. 2023 And the former consultants who do eventually climb to the top of a company only do so after some strategic job-hopping to gain hands-on business bona fides.—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023 One reason: Less stigma around job-hopping, allowing even C-suite officers to negotiate for higher pay.—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023 Generally, across age groups, job-hopping and subsequent pay increases are declining compared to the 2021-2022 highs, according to a Bank of America Research analysis last month.—Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 24 June 2023 Though job-hopping has slowed down considerably, keep your radar out at all times.—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2023
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