job-hopping

noun

job-hop·​ping ˈjäb-ˌhä-piŋ How to pronounce job-hopping (audio)
: the practice of moving from job to job
job-hopper noun

Examples of job-hopping in a Sentence

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However, job-hopping is often more common than company loyalty for Millennials and Generation-Z, and remote work provides employees with a broader range of options. Dr. Cassandra Henderson, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024 My parents worried about my job-hopping, but some professions are just like that. Noel Burgess, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024 Another reason is that recruiters in the past discouraged workers from job-hopping because it was looked upon as unstable and irresponsible. Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024 Hiring managers have different definitions of what constitutes excessive job-hopping. Morgan Smith, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2024 The big picture: Amid an increase in job-hopping and an aging population, 401(k) rollovers have become a big opportunity for financial firms. Lucinda Shen, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024 In 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

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of job-hopping was in 1945

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“Job-hopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/job-hopping. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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