70% of Teenage Workers Leave Within a Year. The High Turnover Occupations Where Gen Z Is Running Fastest
The hospitality industry loses 34% of its workers within a year. Arts and entertainment follows at 26%. Retail is close behind at 25%. These are not niche sectors. They are among the largest employers of young people in the UK, and they are bleeding staff at rates that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. For anyone tracking high turnover occupations, the pattern is clear: the jobs that employ the most young people are the jobs that young people leave the fastest. The Numbers by Age Median employee tenure for workers aged 16-19 is just 0.8 years shows that job hopping is concentrated at the youngest end of the workforce. Among 16 to 19 year-olds, 70.3% have been with their current employer for less than 12 months. For 20 to…









