5 ways employers can prevent employees from ‘revenge quitting’ in 2025

5 ways employers can prevent employees from ‘revenge quitting’ in 2025

Longstanding workplace issues such as mistreatment, the normalization of toxic behaviour and a lack of accountability for workplace culture have fueled a growing trend known as revenge quitting. This phenomenon, on the rise since the 2000s, sees employees leaving their jobs not just for better opportunities, but as a form of protest and self-preservation against unfair treatment. In the past, fear of economic ruin, social stigma and valuing job …

Preventing ‘revenge quitting:’ 5 things workplaces can do to help employees feel like they belong

by Andrea Carter, Adler University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Longstanding workplace issues such as mistreatment, the normalization of toxic behaviour and a lack of accountability for workplace culture have fuelled a growing trend known as revenge quitting. This phenomenon, on the rise since the 2000s, sees employees leaving their jobs not just for better opportunities, but as a form of protes…

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