Is the Great Resignation affecting tech companies?

It’s not your imagination, ‘The Great Resignation’ is here and in full effect. A search using Google Trends revealed how popular this search query is right now compared to January 2004. It’s not pretty.

Are you wondering where Americans are quitting most? This chart is a clue based on Google searches for “Great Resignation”.

I’ve read a few articles about how this ‘Big Quit’ movement has mainly affected the hospitality and tourism industries, but not technology businesses as much. That’s not what I’ve heard speaking to industry leaders, so I conducted a week-long poll in the Software as a Service SaaS Group on LinkedIn to test the waters.

Of course, this is an unscientific poll, but it’s a good way to get a feel for how things are going in the industry that Futureforth serves - fast-growing technology companies.

Forty-one people voted in my informal poll and the results are in. Forty-nine percent said more people have been quitting, 24% said some people have quit, and 27% said the ‘Great Resignation’ hasn’t affected them (yet).

It’s the 49% number that should be most worrying.

If you are seeing employees leave your organization, I recommend reading How to stop employee turnover at tech companies.