Workers are " hugging " — or, clinging to — their jobs right now.

But there's a right and wrong way to "hug" your work — and doing it poorly could be costly, according to career experts and labor economists.

"I don't think job hugging is the move," said Mandi Woodruff-Santos, a career coach.

Why people are job hugging

The " quits " rate — which measures the pace of voluntary separations from employment — has sat at 2% in recent months, its lowest sustained level since 2016.

About 52% of new hires had changed jobs just once in the past two years, according to a ZipRecruiter's most recent quarterly survey of new hires. That share is up from 43% in Q2. The site surveys workers during the second month of each quarter.

Some of that "hugging" behavior is likely out of necessity, sinc

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