The objective of this study is to understand the paradigm shift that unfolded throughout the “Great Resignation\Reshuffling” (2020-2022) within the minds of individuals post March 2021. To fully understand the Great Resignation, one must look at the year prior to the event. In March of 2020, the world changed as billions of individuals watched as boundaries, academic institutions, government agencies and corporations shut their doors all in the name of containment of the infectious disease known as Coronavirus (COVID-19). As cases increased across the global, organizations had to reassess the human capital cost considering dwindling revenue and executive orders that closed all nonessential businesses. The decision by U.S organizations to furlough and/or lay off workers led to approximately 23 million Americans unemployed and standing in a place of ambiguity. Over the next two (2) years, the government worked in collaboration with organizations to instate policies/protocols to re-open America and return life to the new normal inclusive of working online and in person. However, Americans were slow to return to the workforce that once so flippantly provided them a termination letter. The stagnation in ready and able bodies willing to return to the workforce has led to a labor shortage. Despite several efforts to incentivize individuals to return, the statistics did not reflect the desired outcome and the cause was and is relatively unknown. In light of this unprecedent phenomenon, this study utilized a netnography to explore the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Bullshit Job Theory within the framework of re-engaging in the job market after the pandemic. The findings from study one (1) suggest that a newfound sense of worth, salary, stress steward of care, and stumbling blocks are the leading factors that may prohibit individuals from returning to work. As individuals remained on the work sidelines a spillover effect started to unfold. Those individuals working had to shoulder the work of those who had not yet returned and an uptick in quit rates soon emerged known as the Great Resignation. Consequently, the organizations started to cannibalize the job market creating an environment for individuals to resign and explore new opportunities. To investigate this phenomenon, study two (2) performed a deep dive into the subreddit “r/antiwork:” to explore why individuals were quitting their jobs. The data from study two (2) indicates 20% of the high engaging posts on the subreddit thread of “r/antiwork” can be associated with one (1) of the five (5) categories defined as a Bullshit job. / Business Administration/International Business Administration

S'appuyant sur les résultats de trois ans d'enquête de type ethnographique par observation-participante (Lapassade,2006; Plane 2014) auprès des Intermittents du travail- anciens actifs qualifiés qui ont opéré une rupture radicale et volontaire avec un ancien mode de vie confortable, principalement centré sur le travail pour un mode de vie d'apparence plus précaire où la quête d'une meilleure qualité de vie prime sur celle d'un travail rémunérateur et expressif-, cette recherche propose de comprendre ce qui a été rejeté dans le travail et au profit de quoi.L'approche de la psychosociologie du travail et la pratique clinique qui l'accompagne (Lhuilier et al., 2013) nous ont permis d'interpréter les données sous l'angle dialectique d'une transition professionnelle comme acte de résistance autant que de création. Ont ainsi été mis en lumière plusieurs mécanismes potentiellement nocifs dans le travail aujourd'hui, comme l'entretien d'une culture du "stimulacre" (Bouilloud, 2012) autour d'un travail rêvé épanouissant et au réel fondamentalement décevant et, d'autres, plus vitalistes, comme l'expérience d'un travail autrement par un retour à l'"artisanat" au sens large (Sennett,2010) - celui du "beau travail" qui entretient autant le corps que l'esprit -, la débrouille, la polyactivité, l'interconstruction des milieux de vie, entre autres.Cette thèse propose aussi une réflexion sur le travail de terrain du chercheur, ses dilemmes et ses enjeux / Based on the results of a 3-year field study among a population of occasional French workers named after the researcher "Intermittents du travail", this research aims at understanding what is expected from today's work and what is rejected in the way executives experience it. After achieving brillant studies and a successful career start as executives in a big company, the "Intermittents du travail" left everything to come and live on the French West Coast,attempting to design a new way of working which would grant less space to work and more space to private activities. We choose the theoretical framework of the French psychosociology of work and the clinical practical approach that underlies it (Lhuilier et al.,2013) to interpret the data. By conceiving work transitions as an intricacy between resistance and creation processes, both at micro-and macro-social levels, this approach enables us to unveil some mecanisms potentially harmful in today's work that would make top-level workers deeply unsatisfied about the true nature of a work they had dreamt of and idealized during so many years before.Furthermore, the analysis of the transition's aftermaths reveals the critical aspects of what a "good job" should consist in as appositive to the "bullshit job" (Graeber,2013)these people experienced previously: the importance of working as a craftsman in every situation- which means to be concerned by the beauty and the quality of work, both using the head and the hands (Sennette,2010)-, the art of unravelling, the capacity of balancing work activities with leisure ones and,among others