Job Hopping among Millennial Journalists: Sharing Malaysian Experiences

The employment sector around the world including Malaysia has seen an increasing involvement of millennial generation workers, however, millennial is also being described as frequent job hoppers compared to the previous generation. Millennials are easily leave their organizations less than two years. There is still a lack of knowledge on the real causes of job hopping in collectivist and high power distance society. In this study, six (6) deliberately selected journalists were interviewed and data were analysed using thematic. The findings revealed four main themes: (i) career development; (ii) salary; (iii) work-life balance; and (iv) organization justice, crucial towards preventing millennial journalist from job hopping A proposed concept was presented to explain the job hopping scenario amongst millennial journalists.