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A record number of workers are quitting their jobs, empowered by new leverage
4.3 million people quit their jobs in August, nearly 3 percent of the entire workforce.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/12/jolts-workers-quitting-august-pandemic/
By Eli Rosenberg at the Washington Post
Today at 11:10 a.m. EDT|Updated today at 11:19 a.m. EDT
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The number of people quitting their jobs has surged to record highs, according to new data from the Department of Labor released Tuesday.
Some 4.3 million people quit jobs in August, according to the monthly survey about 2.9 percent of the workforce. The phenomenon is being driven in part by workers who are less willing to endure inconvenient hours, compensation, or conditions because they know there are ample opportunities elsewhere.
Those numbers include about 892,000 workers in restaurants, bars and hotels, as well as 721,000 workers in retail. An additional 706,000 employees in professional business services and 534,000 workers in health care and social assistance also quit.
Warehouse jobs recently thought of as jobs of the future are suddenly jobs few workers want
Nick Bunker, economist at the jobs site Indeed, said the numbers were a reflection of the leverage workers have in the current economic market, with job openings outnumbering unemployed workers. The high level of people quitting their jobs was likely due in large part to people leaving jobs to take other positions, although the data doesnt specify why people are quitting and where they are ending up.
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applegrove
(118,022 posts)have some power.
Sibelius Fan
(24,378 posts)but are passed over due to rampant ageism in the job market.
underpants
(182,279 posts)Im sure a lot of people stuck out the last year and a half getting more time in service and adding to their Social Security. Now, they are done. Lots of people who got put off in the Great Recession are moving back to fields and levels they should be in.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)K&R
DBoon
(22,288 posts)Nice to see the change
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)The lying flat movement calls on young workers and professionals, including the middle-class Chinese who are to be the engine of Xi Jinpings domestic boom, to opt out of the struggle for workplace success, and to reject the promise of consumer fulfilment. For some, lying flat promises release from the crush of life and work in a fast-paced society and technology sector where competition is unrelenting. For Chinas leadership, however, this movement of passive resistance to the national drive for development is a worrying trenda threat to ambition at a time when Xi Jinping has made grand ambition the zeitgeist of his so-called New Era.
Lying flat is justice
The lying flat movement was jumpstarted in April when a post on Baidu titled Lying Flat Is Justice went viral on the platform. A manifesto of renunciation, the post shared the authors lessons from two years of joblessness. The extraordinary stresses of contemporary life, the author concluded, were unnecessary, the product of the old-fashioned mindset of the previous generation. It was possible, even desirable, he argued, to find independence in resignation: I can be like Diogenes, who sleeps in his own barrel taking in the sun. Discussions about lying flat picked up pace in May, as young Chinese, over-worked and over-stressed, weighed the merits of relinquishing ambition, spurning effort, and refusing to bear hardship.
getagrip_already
(14,250 posts)are being squeezed out of the system. They were literally willing to do jobs nobody else wanted, and worked for far less than the documented rates.
But nooooo. The gop decided they were bad, evil, and taking jobs from whites. They were none of that, and now we are seeing the results of them not being in the workforce.
applegrove
(118,022 posts)Americans. They are waiting for the better pay though. Bet big business hates Trump because there go their bonuses but they can't say anything because he controls the base.
moondust
(19,917 posts)So much has been automated and otherwise computerized and updated that it takes time for new employees to learn how to operate the machinery in addition to learning all the other relevant duties of the job.
Amishman
(5,541 posts)Kiosk ordering in food service
Warehouse automation
Fruit picking robots
Automated underwriting of loans and insurance policies
Drone based delivery of packages or even pizza and other food orders
All of these things are in testing or being rolled out - and together will eliminate millions of jobs