Posted on 05/17/2023 8:31:56 PM PDT by anthropocene_x
Can’t move, won’t move. That’s increasingly the approach of Americans who are in the market for a new job.
The share of job seekers who relocated to take up a new position fell to 1.6%, the lowest level on record, in the first quarter of 2023, according to a quarterly survey that’s been carried out by executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. for decades.
Behind the shift in attitudes lies a post-pandemic surge in remote and hybrid positions, which has made it possible for more workers to stay where they’re living even as they change jobs. What’s more, higher interest rates have made buying a house somewhere else more expensive — especially when it also requires people to sell an existing home that’s financed with a mortgage locked in at low costs.
And all of that comes on top of longer-term trends that have seen US workers grow steadily more reluctant to relocate — perhaps because diminishing job security has made the costs of moving house seem like less of a safe investment.
“In the 1980s and 90s, nearly a third of job seekers would move for new positions,” said Andrew Challenger, senior vice president at Challenger, Gray & Christmas. “Now, remote and hybrid positions are keeping workers at home.”
About one-third of US companies say most of their workers are in the office, according to Challenger — up from just 13% last fall. Still, many workers are digging in their heels and refusing to come back.
Fewer than half of workers went to the office in 10 of the largest US business districts in the week ended May 10, according to data from Kastle Systems, a office key-fob firm.
I agree, I just got a job heading up some enterprise arm Ai stuff.
my commute is about an hour each way by helicopter, assuming the pilot and autopilot cooperate.
at least I can do work stuff each way
Americans in general are less mobile than they were even 30 years ago. More folks prefer staying in place and that is a good thing: https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-are-moving-less-social-demographic-changes-2022-8?amp
Why would people put their families through major changes when their new boss might collude with our corrupt government to make them work at home and force them all to take toxic experimental medications at any time?
I have recently received a couple of emails from red-dot Indians looking for AFS/CL3 experience. Here’s what they sent:
Hello,
Hope you are doing good. This is Akash Jangwal from Stellar Consulting.
We have an excellent long-term contractual opportunity from UST, please let me know if you are interested with the below requirement and share the updated resume.
AFS AND CLE AND Lending
Job Title: AFS CL3 SME / Consultant
Location: Cleveland, OH - Onsite Preferred, (open to remote – if remote, travel as needed (minimal travel and would need to be in EST)
Must have:
• 3-5 years of experience in AFS CL3
• 5-7 years of commercial lending experience
Primary Responsibilities:
• Provides subject matter expertise in the AFS CL3 application. Assists client in implementing, upgrading, or migrating from AFS CL3 application.
• Utilizes professional expertise to perform analysis, and/or development activities with technology. Requires demonstrated subject matter expertise in the specified application.
• Serve as the subject-matter-expert on the AFS CL3 (mainframe platform) commercial loan application.
• Strong knowledge and technical understanding of AFS CL3 system with implementation/upgrade experience.
• Consult on large project initiatives for commercial loan system implementation, upgrade, and data migration effort from AFS CL3 to AFS vision or Loan IQ.
• Understand accounting process of AFS CL3 and be able to define the approach to handle account balances of CL3 accounts during platform migration.
• Lead the change management of commercial loan servicing data and processes.
• Ensure execution of tasks defined in the project plan to achieve the project goals.
Best Regards,
Akash Jangwal
My response:
Permit me to clarify a couple of points:
1. If you had actually read my resume, you would have realized that my AFS / CL3 experience is very out of date. I have not worked with this system for decades. This tells me that you aren’t really paying attention – you’re just key word searching and hoping to get a hit. I find this lazy and careless approach to recruiting to be unprofessional and insulting.
2. Wild horses and the French Foreign Legion could not drag me to an urban shithole like Cleveland Ohio. Quality of life means something, and that is why I moved to northern Idaho over 20 years ago.
While I am open to remote work, I will not entertain a job posting reference from you under any circumstances.
Regards,
I’m certainly not going to move to a big blue city for any amount of money.
I think the days of big corporate relocations are over. As mentioned in my link above, Americans are less likely to love than they were years ago as they do not want to disrupt their immediate social networks, especially as their employer can downsize them at anytime.
My son-in-law received an unsolicited, very lucrative job offer in the San Francisco area. He replied, “No thank you at any price”.
I’m sure that’s part of it too.
Why would you move to the other side of the country to an area you don’t know for a job you know damn well you can do 100% remote?
Especially when the position is in a high cost of living state and you don’t see the point in moving there just for a numerically higher salary.
You know....forty years ago....all kinds of people would have been pepped-up for a job offer in the SF area. Presently? Even if you put a $250,000 salary deal on the table...what idiot would do this? Between the safety issue, degrading conditions downtown, the tax structure in the state, lack of law enforcement, and sanitary conditions....it’s a no-go situation.
I don’t see how the region can continue to operate with Fortune-500 companies. If you said I could work from home (living outside the state) and only fly in for one day per month...that’s about the only way that you’d attract people to fill jobs.
It’s not worth it to uproot and willy nilly move for some job, when they can fire you and or lay you off for any reason, at any time
I found by happenstance that moving to a new job would raise my pay.
You gain experience. Keep the resume up to date. Go to places like salary.com to see the pay levels. Learn new things. Definitely get office skills like Word and Excel. You can learn much on the internet for free for jobs in an office and other skills.
Other jobs may mean going to a trade school for hands on training. Ignore the doubters and that includes yourself. Be prepared when you go in for an interview. Number 1 is turn off the phone!
Dress for the job. Ask questions about the job. Never say you will be there a short time and move on. Get the job, learn all you can then start to look for that better paying long term job. Once you have a job be sure not to talk about personal stuff or the boss to your co-workers. Politicians in every work place. Save your money.
#7 At my last place I worked there was a big change and the west coast higher up execs in sunny California were told to keep their job they had to move to New Jersey.... Then the company higher ups above them pulled the rug out for those that did and they still lost their job.
“It’s not worth it to uproot and willy nilly move for some job, when they can fire you and or lay you off for any reason, at any time”
Unless you don’t mind the risk of getting jerked around every time you go in to help bring down the spike in some lousy hiring manager’s workload. “Thanks, you’ve been a great help to us, However...”
Maybe it means that there are so many people who are 'set' with family money that they really don't HAVE to have a job.
If that were so, it would explain a lot of the craziness we see now... growing belief in socialism, climate hysteria, trannies, pervs going after children, rampant drug use, apathy, nihilism, silly pastimes like twitter, TicTock, decay of our most important institutions, etc.
If people are grounded in reality because they MUST have a serious income-producing job, they tend not to have hobbies such as the above. You can talk sense to them.
I just insist on 100% remote contracts. Moving is no longer necessary.
Tell ya what. I’m willing to do a job in San Francisco and I’m even willing to relocate there. The only thing is you’re gonna have to increase that salary from $250K by a factor of 10.
A couple years of that and I’ll quite of course.
I won’t consider accepting anything less to put myself through the hell of living there for even a brief time.
No mention of confiscatory property taxes that make it harder than heck to sell and/or buy a home...
Not that you actually own a home in a property tax state.
You rent it from the government.
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