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Last month, job-quitters beat the all-time record for quitting their jobs with 4.4 million resignations. The record (4.3 million) was only a month old.
Before COVID-19, I would read stories about many jobs in which employers require overtime, change hours at the last minute, don’t include any benefits, don’t give any paid sick time, etc, etc…
When people got laid off during the pandemic, perhaps they realized how little money they got for such shabby treatment.
In related news, a lot of quitters are starting their own businesses. So many, in fact, that the Census is starting to count business startups as an official stat.
Americans give bosses same message in record numbers: I quit
Americans quit their jobs at a record pace for the second straight month in September, while businesses and other employers continued to post a near-record number of available jobs.
apnews.com
Before COVID-19, I would read stories about many jobs in which employers require overtime, change hours at the last minute, don’t include any benefits, don’t give any paid sick time, etc, etc…
When people got laid off during the pandemic, perhaps they realized how little money they got for such shabby treatment.
In related news, a lot of quitters are starting their own businesses. So many, in fact, that the Census is starting to count business startups as an official stat.
Census Bureau to add business startups as an official stat - Marketplace
The fast-moving nature of the pandemic demands new measurements that are more timely.
www.marketplace.org