# 1158: The Science Behind Why People Quit with Dr. Anthony Klotz Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1158-the-science-behind-why-people-quit-with-dr-anthony-klotz Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1158-the-science-behind-why-people-quit-with-dr-anthony-klotz.md Podcast: [How to Be Awesome at Your Job](https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232) Published: 2026-06-04T06:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/prefix.up.audio/s/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/e/211/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/373a177f-1220-44ac-89dd-3acf50ebfa30.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/prefix.up.audio/s/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/e/211/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/373a177f-1220-44ac-89dd-3acf50ebfa30.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/episodes/1158-the-science-behind-why-people-quit-with-dr-anthony-klotz Duration seconds: 2627 ## Resource Dr. Anthony Klotz discusses how to manage the big and small moments that make us question our next career moves. — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) How the pandemic fundamentally altered our relationship with work 2) Why doing nothing is often your best solution  3) How to find more satisfaction in a job you’re stuck in  Subscribe or visit   AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1158  for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT ANTHONY —  Dr. Anthony Klotz is a professor of organizational behavior at the UCL School of Management in London. Known for predicting a global labor shift and dubbing it the Great Resignation, Klotz writes for Harvard Business Review and The Wall Street Journal, and his research is regularly published in leading management journals. He has discussed the current and future state of work with media outlets, including The New York Times, BBC, and CNN, and with executive teams at Fortune 100 firms. • Book:  Jolted: Why We Quit, When to Stay, and Why It Matters • Email: a.klotz@ucl.ac.uk • LinkedIn: Anthony Klotz • Website: AnthonyKlotz.com — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • Study: “Employee theft as a reaction to underpayment inequity: The hidden cost of pay cuts.” by J. Greenberg • Book:  Asking: A 59-Minute Guide to Everything Board Members, Volunteers, and Staff Must Know to Secure the Gift by Jerold Panas • Book:  Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect   by Will Guidara • Book: The Log from the Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck • Past episode: 346: Seizing Career Opportunities with AstroLabs’ Muhammed Mekki — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —  •  Shopify . Sign up for your $1/month trial at  Shopify.com/awesomepod See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/p… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/episodes/1158-the-science-behind-why-people-quit-with-dr-anthony-klotz/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1158-the-science-behind-why-people-quit-with-dr-anthony-klotz.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.