A new trend emerges in the economy. What is 'job hugging?' - CNN

[TexasTowelie]

CNN senior reporter Matt Egan explains “job hugging,” a new trend where workers are staying on their jobs longer due to worries about losing their jobs and are less confident about new employment.

[BamaRefugee]

1. NEW TREND? That's been the American way of life since I was born in 1951.

[SheltieLover]

2. Yup

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Nope. . . . nt

[Farmer-Rick]

4. Exactly

You stay as long as you can stand the idiocy, shitty pay and constant harassment by management. Then you move on to another awful job. Each time you change jobs you get a bit more pay.

It's as if these corporate tools think they are doing us a favor by giving us yet another shitty job. You still got to work excessive hours with stupid bosses and little or no appreciation.

[wolfie001]

5. Pejorative term for a society that rewards downsizing

I think they're preparing Americans for some unsettling economic realities with the fat orange imbecile leading the way to another republican downturn (I think it started a couple months ago).

[alwaysinasnit]

6. Job hugging; euphemism for desperation. Corporate America must be ecstatic.

[J_William_Ryan]

7. "...worries about losing their jobs..."

If you’re subject to layoffs/cutbacks/downsizing, you’re going to lose your job anyway, regardless of how hard you hug.

[OC375]

8. LOL

As a Gen-Xer, that's been my entire work experience since graduating in the mid-1990's.

[BamaRefugee]

9. You wanna know what a "NEW TREND" would be? "Surveys show that the vast majority of American workers are

extremely satisfied with their jobs, are finding immense personal gratification for having found their *life's calling* and expressed hope that they could work forever and ever there."