It’s time to get back to work. It might be this week, next Monday, or even in a few weeks as the kids head back to school, but there comes a time when we all return to the workplace after the holiday period when you know more about the book you’re reading than what day of the week it is.

Every January, there’s a familiar and predictable pattern. Hordes of workers return to their jobs inspired by the perspective of holidays, walk into their boss’s office and resign.

The dread of returning to work after a holiday break can inspire some to quit. But hold your horses.Credit: Getty Images

The opening of a new calendar is an obvious time to set goals and aspirations for the year ahead, and for many that includes resigning from their job and finding a better one.

There are about 200,000 new online job advertisements posted each month, according to data from the governments’ Jobs and Skills Australia, with December and January........

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