Move over from ‘quiet quitting’. Increasing layoffs and job insecurity has given prominence to ‘career cushioning’, which loosely translates as employees being ready with a plan B. This time, the workplace has borrowed this trend from the dating industry. In romantic relationships, cushioning is a strategy to soften the blow of a breakup. In the workplace culture, it means to leave your options open and take steps to ‘cushion the landing’ if anything unexpected happens.
Anshuman Das, CEO and Co-Founder of Careernet, suggests that employees should keep the right balance between high-growth and stable career opportunities. High growth does not assure stability, and when the job market is seeing attrition, such an industry will be targeted first.
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