Here's a blog post outlining why I left Google this month (June 2021) to take a 1-year sabbatical: https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue/ https://kayce.bas

Here's a blog post outlining why I left Google this month (June 2021) to take a 1-year sabbatical: https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue/ https://kayce.basqu.es/sabbatical/prologue/ (Per AnIdiotOnTheNet's feedback here is a summary of my motivations and a compare/contrast with the ideas mentioned in the CNBC post) The main thing for me was the prospect of having kids in the next 5 years. It doesn't seem like it will ever get easier to have a sabbatical than it is right now. It helped me to think of the decision as a tradeoff between money, energy, and time. When you have a full-time job you optimize for money and sacrifice your energy and time. Taking a sabbatical means that I'm choosing to sacrifice money in order for more energy and time. Maybe this is helpful way to think about burnout: burnout is sacrificing too much time and energy for money. Not wanting to commute any longer was a secondary decision but not my primary concern. The article states “Either they’re unfulfilled from their jobs or their priorities have changed", I would say both of those were relevant in my experience. Last this article is suggesting that people are resigning because they have better opportunities elsewhere. I do worry that I'm taking this sabbatical as a terrible time. It could be a great time to switch jobs and lock in a full-remote position. I think there are two general groups of people participating in this potential "great resignation": sabbatical / gap year people like me who are doing it from a "life is short" philosophy and others who are doing it to land a better job. The motivations to resign are probably very different depending on what group you're in. Edit: Someone left an angry comment (deleted a few seconds ago) stating that I keep linking to this post and it seems like I'm doing it as a bot. I will note here that I'm not a bot and I'm sorry if my comments are coming off as robotic, but I put a tremendous amount of effort into that blog post and I'm just trying to share my perspective without spending a lot of time on one-off comments. The fact that this conversation is coming up so frequently on page #1 shows that a lot of people are thinking about it. And because I actually took the leap I figure that my post is a good "skin in the game" anecdotal explanation of why one person actually participated in this "great resignation". (Edit 2: I put in a summary of my blog post and a compare/contrast of my motivations with the CNBC article's content so this last paragraph is now obsolete)