Study proves: More and more employees are quitting their jobs without finding a new job

Created: 2022-02-25Updated: 2022-02-25, 4:00 p.m

The desire for a new job is particularly pronounced among the women surveyed, as the survey showed.

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Many employees put their professional lives to the test during the corona pandemic.

In the corona pandemic, many employees are ready to

.

This is illustrated by a survey conducted by Forsa in January 2022 on behalf of Xing E-Recruiting*.

In Germany, about a thousand adult workers (workers and employees) took part.

Job survey by Forsa on behalf of Xing

is particularly pronounced

among

the women surveyed, such as

poll announced.

38 percent of female German employees are aiming for a job change this year, compared to 32 percent last year.

One result is surprising: According to the survey, around one in four people even quit their job even though he or she

the statement said.

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Study: A third of job changers name Corona as the reason

The motives for an actual job change are, for example, the desire for

, a good

and a

.

But a striking number of job changers also cited the corona pandemic as a reason, as the survey also shows: Since the beginning of the

in 2020, ten percent of those surveyed in Germany had changed their job.

"The fact that Corona influenced this decision is confirmed by 31 percent of female and 22 percent of male German job changers," the company said about the study.