How to make switching jobs not terrifying

单集文稿 ...

• 00:11

  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

• 00:13

  I'm Stephen Misaha.

• 00:15

  And I'm Darren Woods.

• 00:16

  So, Stephen...

• 00:18

  There are reports showing that people are pretty worried about their jobs right now.

• 00:22

  Yeah, it's this sort of labor market freeze that we're in.

• 00:26

  Very few companies are hiring right now.

• 00:28

  Workers, they're clinging to their existing jobs.

• 00:31

  I believe job hugging is the word I've heard.

• 00:33

  Even if they don't like the job, they're holding on tight.

• 00:36

  Yeah, the quits rate is really low and that is not a great sign usually.

• 00:42

  There are a lot of reasons behind this freeze.

• 00:45

  You've got interest rates starting to bite,

• 00:47

  uncertainty about government policy, probably even artificial intelligence, automating junior tasks.

• 00:54

  But whatever the cause, there is a set of policies that we in the US could learn from,

• 01:00

  policies that could unfreeze the labor market.

• 01:03

  It's called flex security.

• 01:05

  Flex security, exactly.

• 01:06

  When the economics Nobel was announced this year,

• 01:09

  this term kept coming up as a way to manage a fast-changing economy.

• 全部文稿