The writer is the author of ‘How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking’

It has become an unquestioned truism of the pandemic era to believe that more people than ever before are having a career wobble. They’re calling it The Great Resignation. Why not throw everything up in the air and start again? What do you have to lose? Seek pastures new. Make a bold move. Be the new post-Covid you.

It is a powerful assumption. In the past week I have had several conversations with friends in large companies who are already instinctively planning 2022 around the idea that they are likely to lose key players in their workforce. But is this canny? Or a touch Covid-fevered? After all, The Great Resignation is easy to imagine but impossible to evidence. The data proving its long-term existence will take years to emerge. So I wonder if we should take it at face value?