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Office workers who went remote during COVID-19 shutdowns have leverage right now. But they should be prepared to negotiate.
Many of us had to make the sudden transition to remote work at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. And a significant number want to keep it that way, even when returning to the office becomes an option. About 1 in 4 workers currently working from home due to the pandemic wants to continue to stay fully remote, according to a March survey of more than 1,000 U.S. workers.
Some people are even willing to stake their jobs on it. Forty-two percent of workers said they will start job hunting if their company ends its remote work policy, according to a Prudential survey of 2,000 adults in the U.S. who’ve been able to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Two weeks of notice is a courtesy to your boss not a legal requirement.
Quitting a job has two phases. First, you have to decide whether it’s the right move for you, and then you have to plan how to tell your soon-to-be-former employer.
Typically, at least two weeks’ notice is a common courtesy workers are expected to give in the United States, unless there are different standards dictated by an employment contract. During this time, resigning employees usually wrap up or hand over projects in a transition period before departure.
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The model minority myth perpetuates real harm toward Asian professionals.
The “model minority” myth has spread the lie for decades that all Asians in the U.S. are successful. The myth “perpetuates Asian Americans as polite, law- and rule-abiding ethnic groups who naturally achieve success by being hard-working, intelligent, independent and economically gifted people,” said Nadia De Ala, founder of Real You Leadership, a group coaching program for women of color.
The myth was perpetuated
by sociologist William Petersen in 1966. He pitted Japanese Americans against Black Americans in an article in The New York Times, stereotyping Japanese Americans as successful, industrious and “exceptionally law-abiding,” while portraying Black Americans as part of a “problem minority” group, pathologically unable to overcome histories of discrimination.