"I'm giving them my two weeks' notice," John told me. "I've been in a job that has been sapping me of joy for the last five years. I'm not doing it anymore."
John is among the millions of Americans making the decision to leave a current job without a new one lined up. In April alone, 4 million workers resigned from their roles, many in search of better pay and working conditions. There has been a zeitgeist shift in our relationship with work, and employers are struggling to keep up.