Most Zoomers are thinking about quitting by 2025

According to them, more than a third (34%) of employees between 18 and 27 years old said they had decided to change jobs, another 25% were thinking about doing so. By 2024, 45% of zoomers will have already changed jobs and 17% will have done so multiple times. A total of 1,285 people participated in the survey.

Layoffs have become common among younger generations: 43% of respondents quit once a year, 15% quit every six months, and 7% quit once a quarter. 21% change companies every two or three years and only 5% are willing to stay in the same place for more than five years.

Young employees often quit because they want to increase their income. In 2024, 71% quit due to higher salary offers, 61% changed jobs to grow professionally, 52% because of interesting challenges, and 21% because they moved to another city.

UTEAM notes that the proportion of young professionals in the labor market is decreasing, so companies are trying to take their preferences into account by offering flexible hours, remote work and even paying no attention to “quiet vacations.” This is the name given to trips or permits without prior notice to management.

At the end of December, RBC reported that the Ministry of Economic Development had prepared draft amendments to the Labor Code to increase the flexibility of the labor market in the face of personnel shortages. The main changes will affect the regulation of overtime work, the conditions of conclusion, adjustment, as well as the termination of the employment contract, work from vacation and the length of the working week for women in villages.