1 in 4 American workers plan to look for a new job once the COVID-19 pandemic has eased up, new survey says

• A quarter of US workers say they plan to look for a new job after the pandemic, a survey found.
• Most of those workers said they are worried about career growth and thought about their skill sets.
• The survey was conducted on 2,000 adults in early March.

A quarter of US workers plan on looking for a new job when the coronavirus pandemic eases up, according to a new survey.

The survey, conducted by Morning Consult on behalf of insurance firm Prudential in early March, found that 26% of workers want to find work with a different employer when the threat of the pandemic falls.

That figure was even higher among millennials. Some 34% of millennials said they were planning to look for a new job once the pandemic has subsided, compared to 24% of Gen X and 10% of baby boomers.

The survey looked at a national sample of 2,000 "self-identified full-time employed adults" who were aged 18 and older.

Of those who said they plan to change their jobs, 80% said they were concerned about the growth of their career while 72% said the pandemic "caused them to rethink their skill sets."

And 59% of that group said they have looked for new skills training themselves since the pandemic started.

Rob Falzon, the vice chair of Prudential, told Axios that it means businesses are at risk of losing talent.

"If there's one thing that keeps me up at night, it's the talent flight risk," he said.

He said that, as the end of the pandemic looks achievable, business leaders "need to get back to looking more intently at our talent and ensuring we are giving them opportunities even in a remote environment, or we're going to lose them."