The following applies to the Hungarian job market because the person who is supposedly writing this article knows that market better. But I am pretty fucking sure the trends that I highlight below would apply to any companies with mostly white collar employees in the so-called Western world.
Employers are constantly whining about the lack of engagement of their employees. Which whining, if we look at the statistics and only that, is right because there is quite a high "turnover rate" among employees of a Budapest based SSC, if we take an example.
However, employers usually forget to mention the fact that, each and every time a tiny little problem in economy arises, they react with massive lay-offs (they call it "strategic move").
Explain this to me: When it is about employees, we are expected to be loyal and engaged towards them, all that for nothing, but when it is about employers, they don't need to be anything like that, they can fire us the way they want and they can throw us on the streets and say "live as you learnt it in school, motherfucker prole, I fucking don't need you, I never did". How is this fair, how could this happen??
Where does this lead to in terms of employees vs employers relations? Is this good for them, the over-powered employers and how exactly? People you are firing are the customers in the market that you sell your shit to. They will stop buying shit one day, and then you are fucked. Will you go that far? Do you know when you crossed a border that you shouldn't have to, dear employers?
Actually, don't explain anything - I don't wanna hear your lies.
This article is rather about some explanation of the "hidden" reasons that the employers, it seems, are unable to see (or they just don't give a damn about these reasons, that's another story - but let's not suppose each and every employer thinks "ignorance is a strength", let's suppose some are not like this).
About half of the available workforce (even in Hungary) experienced at least 2 major lay-off cycles during his/her time in the job market: one in 2008-2009, the other one in 2020-21. I might add a third lay-off cycle which is this year: 2025.
The age group that is currently 45 or younger, has experienced major lay-offs from the "employers" at least twice during his or her carreer. Some like me, started their "carreer" with a not so stable workplace that "needed" to lay me off due to the 2008-2009 crisis.
We never experienced workplace stability. We did not experience it because we didn't have a chance. We were young when the bigger crisis hit this country, so - according to the government then - we didn't need protection from "market mechanisms", even if big multinationals fire us, we will find jobs soon... They said that, and then my age group, especially the white collars needed to go to unemployment offices and queue there. Then 1 year of unemployment, and we were supposed to be happy with the fact it was "only" one year.
Fuck them.
The thing is: we never experienced what a work place stability is, how it looks like. As a consequence, we don't really believe it exists. I personally don't believe there is any work place stability in this country.
A lot of us, a lot of motherfuckers in this generation that is the relatively young generation in Hungary, think that the key to remain in a workplace is to harm your fellow workmates. They think this: Harm them as much as you could, but do it behind their back so that they cannot fight you back - because inside you are a little, pitiful idiot, with no skills and no nothing, just your filth inside you.
Those who believe in this, they think the world is a zero-sum game. So: the worse for others, the better for me. This is their way of thinking.
I despise this thinking. This is the thinking of motherfucker loser proles who were too lazy to learn anything that counts, so their only "chance" to survive in a job market, in any job market, is to shit on the table and say that it was somebody else.
So I think it is just Eastern-European bullshit, I find this whole thing disgusting.
Unfortunately a lot of young people believe in this, and live their life according to it. They "succeed". They are "successful". This is deeply disgusting for people with a normal moral-cultural and educational background.
I am terribly sorry for the filthy proles (who may be looking as rich, may have a lot of money, luxury cars and several apartments in big cities - but they are just a fucking prole inside).
So the reason why a lot of people will leave the companies at the first possible occasion, is this behavior of the companies: to any tiny problems they reacted with massive lay-offs, so we learnt from their shit: they will fire you sooner or later, unless you do leave them earlier than they fire you. It is twisted, it is disgusting. But the starting point is this: greedy companies, capitalist greed. Not us. Not the employees.
This is the fault of employers, and they are wondering why this is happening (not yet, because there is a lay-off wave going on, but when this is over, employee turnover will be skyrocketing once again - me thinks). And, dear companies, you cannot blame anybody but yourself for this.