UCL School of Management Professor Anthony Klotz has recently been featured twice in Forbes, with two respective articles underlining the growing relevance of his research on why people leave their jobs and why organisations often struggle to see it coming.

In the first article Rodger Dean Duncan frames Klotz’s work and ideas through his widely noted prediction of the Great Resignation and the subsequent arguments developed in his new book Jolted.

Duncan highlights Klotz’s challenge to conventional thinking about turnover, revealing how unstable our attachment to work can be. He argues that “Klotz’s framework offers something rare: a precise vocabulary for forces that were always there but rarely named”, with the piece positioning Jolted as a potential warning to employers and leaders to start treating big company decisions as potential triggers for employees. 

The second Forbes article, by Nirit Cohen, draws on Klotz’s recent conversation on The Future of Less Work podcast and frames it within a wider discussion on declining employee engagement.

Cohen centres her argument around Professor Klotz’s “jolts” and argues that “people are not on autopilot anymore. They are continuously evaluating” with “declining engagement scores reflect[ing] a workforce that is less willing to accept misalignment without acting on it.” 

Read together, the two high-profile features show how Professor Klotz’s research is shaping mainstream discussions about retention, leadership and career decision-making, reinforcing the growing profile of “jolts” in debates about contemporary working life.