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‘Boomerang Employees’ Are Going Back to the Old Jobs They Quit
Familiarity, fears of recession and regrets about the Great Resignation are drawing workers back, and bosses are boasting about it.
Rachel Bentley, a 31-year-old from Austin recently boomeranged back to her former employment with Duo.
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Forget return to office. In this economy, many employees are returning to previous employers, breaking taboos about workplace loyalty and bucking assumptions about the so-called Great Resignation.
Their numbers are up. In the US in the first quarter of this year, 4.2% of all new hires for companies that advertised jobs on LinkedIn were boomerangs, compared to 3.3% in 2019, the social-media firm said.