The Great Resignation: 4 Ways Cybersecurity Can Win

The Great Resignation: 4 Ways Cybersecurity Can Win

Pandemics change everything.

In the Middle Ages, the Black Death killed half of Europe’s population. It also killed off the feudal system of landowning lords exploiting laborer serfs. Rampant death caused an extreme labor shortage and forced the lords to pay wages. Eventually, serfs had bargaining power and escalating wages as aristocrats competed for people to work their lands.

Think we invented “The Great Resignation?” 14th-century peasants did.

Last year, more than 40 million Americans  quit their jobs. The trend raged across Europe. Workers in China went freelance. The Harvard Business Review reports resignations are highest in tech and healthcare, both seriously strained by the pandemic. Of course, cybersecurity has had a talent shortage for years now. As 2022 and back-to-office plans take shape, expect another tidal wave.

Here are four ideas about how to prepare for it and win.

1. You’ll do better if you label it The Great Rethinking

COVID-19’s daily specter of illness and death has spurred existential questions. “If life is so short, what am I doing? Is this all there is?”

Isolated with family every day, month after month, some of us have decided we’re happier than ever. Others are causing a big spike in divorce and the baby bust. Either way, people are confronting the quality of their relationships. Some friendships have made it into our small, carefully considered “safety pods,” and others haven’t.

As we rethink our most pro ..

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