Unemployed population in Mexico grows by 13.5% due to job dissatisfaction

“But all this changed overnight with the arrival of a coordinator. He started putting pressure on my direct boss, yelling at him, being rude in the way he asked for things, and that made him change with us. We were already starting to go out after 9 at night, he was demanding more and more responsibilities from us for the same salary, and his treatment became hostile. The person they hired came to contaminate all the good that there was, and I stopped doing my job with pleasure, it took me longer, I couldn’t concentrate, I was stressed and I started to feel bad about going to work.”

It got to the point where Adriana felt like she was going to explode from all the negative feelings she was accumulating due to dissatisfaction at work, so one day she just decided to go and resign, but not before making sure she had the support of her family and her partner.

Just like Adriana, In the first quarter of the year, 394,757 people were registered as unemployed because they left their jobs due to job dissatisfaction..

This population is unemployed due to dissatisfaction with their previous job grew 13.5% compared to the 347,596 people who gave this reason for unemployment in the first quarter of 2023, according to Inegi data.

These 394,757 people who indicated their dissatisfaction with their previous job as the reason for their unemployment represent 26% of the total unemployed population in Mexico, which stood at 1.5 million in the first quarter of 2024.

Of these people who left their jobs because they were not satisfied, 56% were men and 44% were women.

By entity, in the first quarter of 2024, the State of Mexico was the one where the unemployed population grew the most due to job dissatisfaction, with 102.2%, followed by Coahuila, with 77.9%; Colima, with 57.6%; Tlaxcala, with 45.4%; Yucatán, with 32% and Nayarit and Querétaro, with 31.1% and 23.8%, respectively, this in comparison with the same period in 2023.

On the other hand, the states where the unemployed population decreased due to dissatisfaction with their jobs were: Guerrero, with -50.6%; Baja California Sur, with -41.1%; Zacatecas, with -36.5%; Hidalgo, with -31.3%; Oaxaca, with -29.4% and Chihuahua, with -21.9%.