Blaze Media By PAUL SACCA
The Great Resignation — the widespread movement by American workers to quit their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic — continues to handicap the United States’ economic recovery. A record number of Americans quit their jobs in September, causing job openings to remain at near all-time highs.
A record-high 4.4 million U.S. workers quit their jobs in September, according to the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover or JOLTS. This follows the previous high of 4.3 million in August. The “quits rate,” or the percent of workers who left their jobs, rose to 3% — also a record.
CNBC reported, “So far, roughly 34.4 million people have quit their jobs this year, with more than 24 million doing so since April. By comparison, 36.3 million people quit their job in all of 2020.”
