Job Hopping with Fexingo: Tenure, Loyalty, and the Modern Career Resume

Lucas and Luna explore the career costs and benefits of staying at one company for nearly a decade. Using the real story of a marketing director who left after nine years, they break down when loyalty becomes a liability, how to keep your market value alive while staying put, and why the nine-year point is a critical inflection for negotiation skills and professional growth. They also discuss the...

Episode 6 explores the strategic sabbatical — not a burnout break but a calculated career move. Lucas and Luna examine the case of a senior marketing director at Unilever who took a three-month sabbatical to volunteer in Southeast Asia and returned to a promotion within six months. They dig into the data: one in four companies now offer formal sabbatical policies, and studies show employees who ta...

Lucas and Luna explore why staying at a company for five years can actually strengthen your leverage in salary negotiations and career mobility. They break down the 'loyalty discount' myth, examine how tenure affects internal promotion velocity versus external offers, and look at real data on pay bumps for job-hoppers versus long-term employees. The episode digs into the psychological dynamics of...

In this episode of Job Hopping with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna challenge the conventional wisdom that short job tenures are a red flag. They dive into data from a 2025 LinkedIn study showing that professionals with three or more roles under two years are 40% more likely to be promoted into management by year six. They discuss how recruiters at companies like McKinsey and Google are now trained to dis...

Episode 3 of Job Hopping with Fexingo examines a surprising data point from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's wage tracker: workers who stay at a company for four years earn, on average, 12% more over their next 20 years than those who leave every two years—after controlling for industry and education. Co-hosts Lucas and Luna unpack why tenure-related salary growth compounds, how it affects re...

Lucas and Luna dig into the data on counteroffers—why accepting one to stay at your current job often backfires within months. Drawing on a Cornell study showing that 53% of employees who accept a counteroffer leave within 12 months anyway, they explore the psychology of the 'retention bonus' trap, the erosion of trust on both sides, and what companies like Netflix and Bridgewater do instead. Plus...

In the debut episode of Job Hopping with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna anchor on a startling Bureau of Labor Statistics data point: median employee tenure in the U.S. dropped to 3.8 years in 2024, down from 4.1 years in 2020. Using the specific case of a 28-year-old marketing manager who has held four jobs in six years, they unpack what this number means for career strategy, employer loyalty, and the mo...