The work environment has witnessed great disruption due to COVID-19 in recent times. As the world entered 2021, a sudden change in employee attitude became apparent, and cases of mass resignations started increasing exponentially, leaving businesses to struggle to acquire and retain talent. This mass resignation was termed ‘The Great Resignation’ by Prof. Anthony Klotz in May 2021. Therefore, this situation and the new term given to it is the motivation behind this research. The research aims to understand the underlying factors and their interrelationships, as well as how they affect people’s decision to quit their jobs. This research based on survey data and multivariate statistical treatment of these data is a serious attempt to explore the factors responsible for mass resignation during the unprecedented times. In addition, a sentiment analysis is performed on tweets pertaining to the great resignation to understand the sentiments and emotions of people towards the new phenomenon of the great resignation. The results of the study suggest that some new dimensions majorly trust and self-reliance, responsible for turnover intention. This research attempts to add substantial literature to the existing body of knowledge and also aims to provide some meaningful insights that can be of use to human resource managers in helping them strategize their HR policies so as to maintain the right pool of talents in their organizations.
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