Why the young in US are quitting their jobs

A recent Microsoft survey found that more than 40 per cent of workers globally were considering leaving their jobs this year. PHOTO: NYTIMES
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(NYTIMES) - Something strange is happening to the exhausted, millennial workers of America.

After a year spent hunched over their MacBooks, enduring back-to-back Zooms in between sourdough loaves and Peloton rides, they are flipping the carefully arranged chessboards of their lives and deciding to risk it all.

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