JOB SWITCHING TREND ENDS; CAN WE “DOUBLE-CLICK” ON THIS?

JOB SWITCHING TREND ENDS; CAN WE “DOUBLE-CLICK” ON THIS?

JOB SWITCHING TREND ENDS

The job switching trend that emerged during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic appears to be over, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics this week shows.

The number of employees changing jobs fell to just 8.0 per cent in 12 months to February, which is back to around levels typically seen in the five years leading up to the pandemic and a marked drop from the 9.6 per cent recorded for the year to February 2023.

It’s a similar story over in the US, where many workers are complaining about feeling stuck in their jobs. As a result, companies are trying to inspire workers by creating new opportunities such as letting them apply for temporary positions on other teams so they gain new skills, working in new cities for a few months, and expanding some roles to provide new challenges.

CAN WE “DOUBLE-CLICK” ON THIS?

A new buzzword has entered the corporate chat. The term “double-click”, shorthand for examining something more fully, is the most recent questionable buzzword that has entered corporate lexicon, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Akin to “circle back”, “deep dive” and “touch base”, “double click” – which comes from the action you take to open something on a computer – has been swiftly adopted and used 644 times in corporate calls and events during the first six months of the year, according to VIQ Solutions, a speech-to-text transcription business.

The phrase has received its fair share of skeptics, however, and rightly so. If you really want to examine something, perhaps we skip the “double-click” and just say it.

WOOLIES & THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLAG FIASCO

Remember back in January when Woolies was widely panned for not selling national flags over the Australia Day long weekend? Well, it seems the supermarket giant is keen to reclaim lost ground, using the upcoming Paris Olympics as an opportunity to reintroduce Australian flags to its product mix.

The flags will be locally made and sold alongside Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, and Woolies acknowledged in a statement that it had “disappointed” its customers by not selling Australia-themed merchandise on January 26th.

But it seems that’s not good enough for the Daily Telegraph’s readers, with more than 750 furious Tele comments billing it as a “woke” and “cynical attempt” to cash in on its Olympic games sponsorship.

Seems its damned if you do, damned if you don’t for the Woolworths team.


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