Analysis | From the Great Recession to the Great Resignation, we explore trends in job-hopping. Also: What Americans do before bed and the proper pronunciation of “data.”
That’s been true since at least the 1970s, when the boob tube overtook the toothpaste tube to become our most common pre-bed activity, according to our analysis of time diaries collected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ American Time Use Survey and, for the longer-run statistics, the American Heritage Time Use Study from IPUMS and the Center for Time Use Research. And the TV screen is still the last thing 2 in 5 of us see before we close our eyes.
Television watching, for the record, peaks between ages 60 and 74, when about 47 percent of us watch TV before bed, compared with just 27.5 percent of the youngsters. To be sure, time spent with current employer has fallen since its peak in 2012, immediately after the Great Recession. It soared back then because workers with less experience had been laid off, and those who survived didn’t exactly have a ton of offers to jump ship.As the economy improved, workers started job-hopping again. The biggest job switchers were workers in their prime, folks ages 35 to 55. In January 2016, the typical worker between the ages of 45 and 54 had spent 7.
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