In 2022, the buzz phrase of the year has to be “The Great Resignation”. What is it? It’s a term coined to describe the current rise in people leaving their employer to find work elsewhere.

But people have always moved on, right? Of course they have. Staff retention rates have always been a target for most HR functions. But something is different in 2022. More people are leaving organisations quicker than they did previously. The reasons behind this are wide and varied, but one reason often quoted in reports is the drive for a better “work-life balance”.

This is a problem that all organisations now face, but in the Cybersecurity sector this is becoming an increasingly worrying issue that Boards now need to face up to.

The problem in the c-suite

Back in 2019, Nominet carried out a study on the role of the CISO and discovered a number of things, including that on average a CISO will stay in position for 26 months.  We can only speculate as to what that number might now be, in 2022.

The report indicates that increased stress levels in the C-suite are a factor for a CISO to move on. They go on to indicate that poor work-life balance is an issue, as CISOs and their security teams are often expected to work longer hours than they are contracted to.

With the Pandemic, this situation has only worsened.

The Pandemic and the Great Resignation

The pandemic created a perfect storm for cybercrime as people were forced to work from home, often using old or unsecure systems and networks.  Processes had to be quickly developed that would allow businesses to continue to operate and serve their clients – business survival, not business as usual, was the order of the day.

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