> enables and incentivizes job hopping

I've often felt that I'm not very good at a particular company until I've been there 4 years... then I can really do good work. I wonder if there is any downside for society to incentivize switching often.

What kind of things made you feel not good in the first four years? Just unfamiliarity, something else?

Maybe we can fix the things that make workers uneasy in the first few years.

I think it's bimodal for me, lots in the first six months bringing fresh eyes and outside ideas followed by a lull of a couple years before the benefits of realy knowing the company sets in.