Economy
Baby Boomers Were Job-Hopping Before It Was Cool
New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the notion of the "company man" died not recently, but long ago.
If you haven't already bid farewell to the concept of the “company man,” you definitely missed your chance.
A new study from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the already aged concept of a "good job for life" went away long before the rise of the “job-hopping Millennial” (or Gen-X-er, for that matter). In fact, workers who hold multiple jobs in one lifetime became normal as early as the mid-1970s, with the Baby Boom generation. The BLS finds that the average American born between 1957 and 1964—the latter years of the baby boom—held nearly a dozen (11.7) jobs between the ages of 18 and 48. Job security hasn’t been a guarantee for at least the past 40 years.