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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Job Hugging

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0

Job hugging. Oh.

0:02.2

It's the new thing.

0:03.7

You've heard of job hopping, right?

0:06.0

This is like us here where we're just clinging like grim death.

0:09.1

Yes.

0:09.9

To our microphone stands.

0:11.4

That's it. Exactly.

0:13.4

Employees clinging to their current jobs in an increasingly difficult labor market.

0:19.8

Okay. So this is saying that people are not leaving their positions because like Richard

0:29.7

Gear, I got nowhere else to go.

0:34.0

I got nothing else.

0:34.7

I got nowhere else to go.

0:36.6

Right.

0:37.0

So employees holding on tightly to their

0:39.5

jobs, confidence in a new job opportunity is falling and that is due to economic uncertainty and also

0:48.7

threats from AI and automation. You know, it is interesting how you're, I've reached the age where, you know, they're always

1:03.5

like, if you could go back and tell your younger self something, what would it be?

1:07.5

Like, I've reached.

1:08.0

How far do you need to go back?

1:09.2

Well, I've reached the middle age now.

1:11.4

So I think, which you were the first person to point out to me you are in middle age thank you um where I

1:17.3

think I could be if I could go back and tell my younger self something you better you better really

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