According to an article by Refinery29 and Jill Cotton, author and career expert at Glassdoor, October is shaping up to be a busy period for people that are searching for both full and part-time work. ‘Quiet quitting’ is giving way to a new trend in the world of work called ‘job cuffing’, where job seekers want to hunker down and settle into a new role across autumn and winter.

In the UK the employment rate for people aged 16 to 64 years is still below pre- pandemic levels, but a survey of more than 6,000 UK workers has found that one in five workers (20%) are likely to quit their current role in the next year in search of a better opportunity. As companies struggle to find staff to fill their open positions, prospective employees have a temporary upper hand in the job market.

With 85% of people who adapted to hybrid working models over the course of the pandemic preferring hybrid models and the convenience they offer, accommodating flexibility and aligning with new work mindsets can appeal to people in a competitive job landscape. Loom is doing this by humanising connections for hybrid workers, and Braintrust is decentralizing gig work and changing the recruitment model by giving people more control over the way they work.