Leaving on a Jet Plane (but Just for the Week)
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Human Resource Executive
Fewer people are moving for jobs today — and when people do move, not many are citing work as the reason. Wharton’s Peter Cappelli is inclined to believe that the reason for this “has something to do with employment practices,” and he lists a couple. One: Long-distance commuting is on the rise – people are taking new jobs without uprooting their families. Two: There’s no such thing as lifetime employment anymore; when companies rebalance their workforces, adding employees at one site and cutting back at another, “it’s easier to let people go in the down location and hire new ones in the up location. And they do that a lot.” Most workers, he posits, understand the new dynamics: “If you were offered a new job in another city where you have no ties or networks, and you suspected that the job would probably not last more than three years (which is a good guess), how much of a raise would they have to give you to get you to move? … I suspect it would be a lot more than most employers are willing to pay.”