A new iPhone app was released aimed to relieve employees from stress and anxiety associated with quitting their jobs, according to a Reuters report.
The new iPhone app called 'Quit Your Job' is a meant to be a humorous app created by developers that can send text messages in lieu of face-to-face confrontation with employees' bosses.
The Quit Your Job takes users through a series of steps to determine why they're leaving their jobs in the first place. The app then crafts a text message that is sent to the users' bosses.
"Despite all the advances in technology we still quit our jobs the same way we did hundreds of year ago," Alex Douzet, chief executive officer of TheLadders, a New York-based employment company that produces the app, told Reuters. "There's a lot of anxiety around the resignation process, so we used technology to ease the pain in that moment and make it seamless to breakup with your boss."
According to the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Labor, about 2.3 million Americans left their jobs last October. The common reasons for quitting include dissatisfaction, low career growth prospect, unsatisfactory compensation, or simply the feeling of being unrecognized.
According to Douzet, the first few months of a new year are the busiest time for job searches. Many employers would not quit their jobs during the months of November or December because they're waiting to receive their year-end bonuses.
"It always correlates with New Year's resolutions. People think 'I'm not happy and want to make a move'" Douzet said.
The Quit your Job app was patterned after another app called BreakupText, which lets users leave their significant others via texting. The BreakupText costs 99 cents and is still available for iPhone users.
The designers of BreakupText teamed up with TheLadders and the result was the Quit Your Job app.
"This is unchartered territory," Douzet said of the Quit Your Job app. "It's an experiment to see if people will actually use it seriously. If thousands of people download the app and only one ends up using it seriously, that's interesting because it's changing behaviors."
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