{"id":8206,"date":"2022-12-02T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T16:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/for-todays-young-workers-in-the-u-s-job-tenure-is-similar-to-that-of-young-workers-in-the-past\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T23:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T03:55:23","slug":"for-todays-young-workers-in-the-u-s-job-tenure-is-similar-to-that-of-young-workers-in-the-past","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2022\/12\/02\/for-todays-young-workers-in-the-u-s-job-tenure-is-similar-to-that-of-young-workers-in-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"For today\u2019s young workers in the U.S., job tenure is similar to that of young workers in the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today\u2019s young adults have been on the job with their current employer about as long as young adults over the past four decades, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of the U.S. government\u2019s most recent job tenure data. Among 18- to 34-year-old workers in the United States, 44% reported in January 2022 that they had been with their current employer three years or more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The share of young employees who have been with their employer three years or more has remained relatively steady over time. But it is down somewhat from the share during the aftermath of the Great Recession<\/a> (2007-2009), when employers were doing less new hiring and workers in general shied away from changing jobs. By 2016, 43% of young workers reported being with their current employer at least three years, representing a return to the average over the past 40 years and similar to the percentage today. With the exception of the Great Recession period, today\u2019s young workers are not changing employers more often than young workers did in the 1980s, 1990s or early 2000s. <\/p>\n\n\n

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