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This approach of changing jobs every 1-2-3 years seems really strange from a European perspective. Yes when you're young, but do you want to continue that for life?

No one is stopping you from quitting or changing jobs - but it's in everyone's interest to have a long-term relationship. The employer will treat their employees better and ensure they are happy and healthy, get regularly trained, etc and at the same time doesn't have to be constantly worried of employees gettint poached, training new staff, losing institutional knowledge, etc. And the worker knows that they have safety, can plan housing and family, etc.

It still doesn't need to be rigid (say forcing some to employ/remain employed), but there's no reason why you'd really need to be able to fire someone from one day to the next as seems to be the expectation in the US.



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