As more people leave their jobs to retire early, switch careers or just take a rest, decision-making about career paths and life priorities is getting more complicated.
Lie Flatters, beware: Inflation is making it riskier to take a break from your job. The 'Lie Flat' labor protest movement originated in China as a backlash against escalating workplace demands. It quickly spread around the world, evolving into a reassessment of priorities and lifestyles in a stressed-out, pandemic-weary society. While the trend has been most closely associated with burned-out millennials, it's merged of late with the Great Resignation, which has seen workers of all ages leaving their jobs, retiring or switching careers. Three Bloomberg columnists gathered on Twitter this week to discuss the costs and benefits of dropping out, even temporarily. For some people, it may come down to choosing between wealth or health. Here are the lightly edited highlights of their conversation, moderated by Bloomberg Beta's Roy Bahat.
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Allison Schrager is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.
This piece originally appeared in Bloomberg Opinion