The “Big Stay”—a term coined in mid-2024 suggesting workers are increasingly reluctant to switch jobs—isn’t quite living up to its name, according to LinkedIn’s new Economic Graph analysis. While we’re seeing a natural cooldown from the frenetic job-hopping of 2021- 2023, this shift is happening against the backdrop of a decades-long structural labor shortage. Even with tech and professional services experiencing what LinkedIn calls “Little Stays” with modestly lower quit rates, the fundamental math remains.