How to Use job-hopping in a Sentence
job-hopping
noun-
At the same time, wages were rising at a fast pace, so many individuals engaged in job-hopping.
—
Ana Teresa Solá,
CNBC,
25 Aug. 2025
-
Workers have long been taught that job-hopping is the fastest way to rise through the ranks and secure big pay raises—but the career strategy has lost its edge.
—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
-
And despite how much employers might hate job-hopping, most professionals have been embracing it as a useful career tool.
—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
-
However, wage gains have become so marginal, and job openings have become so scant, that the popularity of job-hopping could lose traction.
—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
-
Another reason is recruiters in the past discouraged workers from job-hopping because it was looked upon as unstable and irresponsible.
—
Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
-
This is giving rise to the trend of job-hugging, which is the opposite of job-hopping that occurred during the Great Resignation of 2022.
—
Rachel Wells,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
-
Instead of job-hopping from business to business in search of bigger pay bumps and position titles, McMillon stayed loyal to the company for his entire 40-year career.
—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
10 Dec. 2025
-
The executives who preached job-hopping and the career coaches who built careers around hacking your way to more money were describing a market that genuinely rewarded those behaviors at a specific moment in time.
—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 June 2026
-
Understanding the Job Hugging Trend Job hugging represents a significant behavioral shift from job-hopping.
—
Kara Dennison,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
-
Yet Kennedy’s trajectory suggests that even in a corporate landscape defined by job-hopping, the conventional route of building range and credibility at a single employer remains a viable one for younger workers.
—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
3 Apr. 2026
-
As someone who worked his way up from unloading trucks in the warehouse to eventually landing in the C-suite, McMillon embodies how staying dedicated to one employer can work wonders for aspiring leaders—in contrast to job-hopping in search of potential pay gains.
—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
-
In 2023, the wage gain for job-hopping stood at around 9%, lowering to about 8% in 2024, and roughly 6% in 2025, according to the Bank of America report.
—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
12 Mar. 2026
Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'job-hopping.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.
Last Updated:
