The Great Resignation

Text analysis of Reddit posts links the Great Resignation to a pandemic-era surge in mental health and work-related distress discourse.
Published

October 1, 2023

We use text analysis to investigate the changes in work- and quit-related posts between 2018 and 2021 on Reddit. We find that mental health and work-related distress topics disproportionally increased among quit-related posts since the onset of the pandemic, likely contributing to the Great Resignation.

Bar chart of topic prevalence shifts in quit-related Reddit posts before and after March 2020

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