Another 4 million workers quit for the 5th month in a row, and it shows how the pandemic is still making people rethink what they want out of work and life
that broke the record and the highest since the BLS started collecting this data in 2001.
Employers scrambling to hire and bemoaning labor shortages likely won't see relief as, workers show no sign of stopping one of the pandemic's hottest trend: Quitting your job. Even as the country added a paltry 366,000 jobs in August — far below economists' expectations — and an equally dismal, workers seemed to have no qualms about leaving the jobs they already had. Those smaller gains were driven by the rise of the Delta variant, as the pandemic's stronghold on the economy and employment continued with increasingly high case loads.
Retail trade also saw its own series high, with the quits rate coming in at 4.7%. Both industries rely heavily on in-person service, which has taken its own dip during the pandemic, and both have struggled with anecdotal labor shortages.
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