Even though he got an immediate 25 percent raise, to $15,000 from $12,000, friends thought he was making a mistake by giving up his job tenure.

Today, that is like betting on Saddam Hussein's job tenure.

Across the economy, black workers have shorter job tenures on average than white workers.

"Companies don't think about the relationship between job tenure and productivity," he said.

Chief information officers have one of the shortest average job tenures of any upper management position.

While building tenure is absurd, job tenure is another matter.

During the last few decades, job stability and job tenure for the typical worker don't seem to have changed much, if at all.

Later, senior researchers in some science establishments lost their security of job tenure.

Work experience, occupational mobility, job tenure, educational attainment, and school enrollment of workers.

While its actual impact on job tenure is still being debated, the sense that jobs are easier to lose than to find is strong.