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Generation resignation: Why millennials are refusing to return to the office
Unemployment levels are high, a recession is looming, yet thousands are turning their backs on the nine to five
9 July 2021 • 5:00am
‘I needed to stop putting energy into things that weren’t going to fulfil me’ Rosanna Stevens, 36, quit her high-profile charity job to become a travel blogger
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When you’ve got a job that is rewarding, exciting and well paid, one that others might chew a leg off for, you don’t usually decide to quit without another one lined up. Especially in the middle of a pandemic. Yet that’s what Rosanna Stevens, 36, did last October, leaving her position as celebrity ambassador manager for a high-profile charity, a role that involved working with musicians and A-list actors to help fundraise and spread awareness. ‘People would say to me: you have the best job, your job is so cool,’ she says. ‘But just because someone else wants your job, that does
If they win, the millennial media brand could become the first major UK news publisher to implement a four-day 32-hour working week, with more than 50 employees affected.
Ruby Lott-Lavigna, mother of the Vice UK NUJ Union chapel, said: “The pandemic has shown that work practices once deemed impossible – such as remote working on a global scale – can be implemented without a company imploding on itself.
“The union believes that now is the time to introduce new working practices, like a four day week. Fewer work hours would allow higher productivity and a happier workforce, something we know Vice cares about.