Not staying at an employer and job hopping is the norm for younger generations. This isn’t the norm for baby boomers.

There are rewards when you job hop. Typically, you see an increase in pay and you are often valued more as an external candidate than an internal candidate when an employer is trying to fill a job.

The stigma associated with job hopping is diminishing as baby boomers leave the workforce and other leaders become more accepting of this behavior.

What if you stopped thinking of it as job hopping? Instead, you could reframe this as employees maximizing their opportunities by being free agents in the marketplace.

The average person changes jobs 12 times in their lifetime. The average employee stays with their employer for 4.3 years.
The median tenure increases with age, as workers ages 55 to 64 remained with an employer for about 9.9 years. Workers aged 55 to 64 had an average tenure of 9.9 years.

If you are an employer, you could reset your expectations and plan on having younger employees changing jobs every 3 - 5 years. You could think of older workers as being more likely to stay 8 - 10 years.

Common reasons for changing jobs are: (1) higher salaries, (2) more opportunities to move up in their careers, (3) being interested in a different field or career, (4) not liking their current boss, (5) relocating for a non-work reason, and (6) not fitting in with their current company’s culture.

So, is job hopping a problem that needs to be fixed or normal?

(Source: Zippia, BLS)

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