Hate your job? Good! Loving your job ‘costs people real money.’
I was interviewed by Venessa Wong at MarketWatch about the latest polling on loving your job (spoiler alert: lots of people don’t!). She wrote, in part:
The concept that workers should love their job emerged as the U.S. shifted from having a largely industrial workforce to a heavily service- and knowledge-based workforce, Sarah Jaffe, author of “Work Won’t Love You Back,” told MarketWatch.
“You didn’t expect anybody to love standing on the automobile assembly line,” she said. But there was a notion that people could harbor a passion for other types of work, she added — and companies could exploit that passion.
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Unsettled workers are realizing that what they want isn’t to love their job, but “a decent paycheck and some stability,” Jaffe said. In fact, 93% of workers told Glassdoor last month that they’ve stayed in a job they didn’t love because of the stability it provided.
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So-called job huggers, people who stay in their jobs, can also try to focus on projects that energize them, or ask to switch teams or managers to make their workdays better, according to Glassdoor’s report.
