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Over the past couple of years, there has been a seismic shift occurring in the workforce that has come to be known as “The Great Resignation.” Millions of workers across sectors, industries, income levels and geographic locations have been handing in their resignations at unprecedented rates.
This mass exodus has left employers scrambling to fill empty roles and has sparked lively debate about what is causing this phenomenon.
While many explanations have been floated around, ranging from burnout to changing priorities, there is an undercurrent driving The Great Resignation that receives far less attention, yet may be one of the most impactful root causes.
Put simply: technology and automation are radically changing the nature of many jobs while our education system fails to prepare workers for this new reality.
The skills and tasks required to thrive in the modern workforce look drastically different than they did even a decade ago, let alone a generation or two in the past.
As repetitive, routine tasks increasingly become automated, the human skills that cannot be replicated by AI and…
