‘Don’t leave’: the remote work guru who nailed the labor market during the Great Resignation offers job advice for 2026

The job market is frozen in place, and it may still be a while until it thaws, said Nicholas Bloom, the Stanford economist whose research explained why millions left their jobs during the Great Resignation. 

His advice for people with a job right now? “don’t leave it,” Bloom said during a webinar at the Harvard Kennedy School last week titled “The Economic Consequences of the Iran War.”

Employers, despite eye-catching exceptions, are laying off employees at a historically low rate but are still reluctant to hire...