{"id":103484,"date":"2025-08-30T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103484\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T17:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T17:24:11","slug":"the-era-of-job-hugging-is-here-and-its-keeping-you-in-that-awful-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103484\/","title":{"rendered":"The Era of \u2018Job Hugging\u2019 Is Here, and It\u2019s Keeping You in That Awful Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a few years ago, American workers were job-hopping like crazy, moving from one company to the next, eschewing loyalty in favor of bigger offers. The job market was conducive to shifting jobs on a dime. However, according to\u00a0Fast Company<\/a>, by 2025, people will be clinging to their careers like a child hugs a teddy bear. There\u2019s even a cutesy little name for it: job hugging.<\/p>\n

According to a report by Korn Ferry, an organizational consultancy firm, job hugging is the act of holding onto your current job for dear life because the alternative is staring into the void of unemployment for weeks or, maybe more realistically at this rate, months.<\/p>\n

The economy is teetering on the edge between not good and disastrous. There\u2019s almost no job growth, and if AI isn\u2019t swallowing your career whole, then it\u2019s chewing away at portions of your job description like a termite. <\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t precisely the economic environment conducive to jumping ship on a whim. It\u2019s the kind where you latch on to the nearest flotation device and you grip it with all of your might for as long as you can.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the Age of \u2018Job Hugging,\u2019 Where No One Wants to Quit Their Crappy Job<\/p>\n

The numbers back this up. According to Fast Company, Eagle Hill Consulting reports that most employees plan to stay in their current roles for at least the next six months. Gen Z is leading the way, and they\u2019re not doing it out of loyalty to their bosses and businesses. They couldn\u2019t care less about that stuff. They\u2019re holding on for dear life out of a sense of your survival.<\/p>\n

Job optimism is at its lowest level since record-keeping began, and for good reason. As a report from DC-based employment firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas found, we\u2019re just now entering the tail end of 2025, and already there\u2019s been 800,000 job losses. That\u2019s the highest number of jobs lost since the pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n

On top of all that, the Bureau of Labor Statistics just lowered job creation numbers for May and June, while July only produced 73,000 jobs<\/a>. Add in inflation, another round of Trump\u2019s tariffs, and the looming threat of AI taking over everything that doesn\u2019t require manual labor and empathy, and it\u2019s clear why nobody\u2019s even bothering to set up an interview with you.<\/p>\n

Happy job hugging, everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a few years ago, American workers were job-hopping like crazy, moving from one company to the next,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,50404,1371,6648,15873,56,54,55,2259],"class_list":{"0":"post-103484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-job-hugging","10":"tag-jobs","11":"tag-life","12":"tag-trending","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom","16":"tag-viral"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}