Even amid rising economic uncertainty, now is not the time to hug your job

In a rapidly changing job market, it's not necessarily good for workers to cling to their current employment

After all the employee protests over the past few years - the great resignations", the quiet quittings", the bare-minimum Mondays" and coffee badgings" - we have finally arrived at job hugging".

Amid all the economic uncertainty and the rising costs of everything, people aren't feeling as confident as they once were. Instead of slacking off while you hunt for something better, everyone's scared about losing their jobs. With all the news about big corporate layoffs and the ominous and still-undefined threat of AI, it's understandable that people are hugging their jobs.