Jolted

Organizational psychologist Anthony Klotz, who predicted the Great Resignation, studies why people quit, whether they should, and how to choose well. Conventional wisdom holds that people leave when a job's toxic elements grow too large or a better offer appears; Klotz argues that is only half the story. Quitting, he finds, is often set off by a single event inside or outside work that stops people short and makes them rethink their relationship with their job. He calls these events jolts and considers them among the most overlooked realities of working life. The book sorts the different kinds of jolts and offers a road map for responding to them in ways that help rather than harm well-being and success.

Adam Grant included it in The New Books to Refresh Your Thinking in 2026 as a guide to deciding whether to stay in or leave a job, and other relationships as well.