A record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September as labor market tumult continued
Source: Washington Post
A record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September, as job openings remained near record levels according to federal data, a sign of how imbalances in the labor market continue to complicate the economic recovery 20 months into the pandemic. Those numbers are up from August, when 4.3 million people who quit their jobs in August — about 2.9 percent of the workforce.
The numbers reflect the changes that continue to wrench the labor market after the pandemic upended the course of business and life across the country in 2020. Americans are quitting their jobs for a number of reasons. In September, when the delta variant of the coronavirus was nearing its peak, child care and other pressures forced many employees to rethink their daily routine. Many other workers, meanwhile, were lured to other jobs because of better pay and benefits elsewhere as employers became desperate to fill openings.
The August data, for example, showed that workers in more rural areas quit at a higher rate in part because they had more leverage to demand better pay. The country has regained the vast majority of jobs lost in the earliest months of the pandemic, but still has more than four million jobs less than it did in February 2020. Economists have been looking to the return to full employment as an important milestone, but labor shortages, surging caseloads from the Delta variant, supply chain issues and other wrinkles have emerged to complicate that recovery.
Businesses and industry groups have complained vociferously about trouble finding available workers since the country’s wide reopening in the spring, as they have sought to hire up. Efforts to curtail unemployment benefits to address the problem, have thus far shown little success of prompting large numbers of people back into the labor market.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/11/12/job-quit-september-openings/
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I was traumatized not seeing his report here, but still glad to find it over there
It could have been he ran into 403 issues getting that posted here. 
Thanks for the link!!
You had our partner going through withdrawal not automatically seeing it here. 
We are going through some wild times, perhaps unprecedented... aside from what happened with huge shifts in the workforce during WW2 with respect to the draft pulling out a large chunk of working age people, followed by backfills of their jobs by then-"non-traditional" employees (often women) because of that, and including others who engaged in all sorts of occupations created to support the war effort.
And good Saturday morning!
from mental, emotional and in some cases physical stress.
Healthcare workers, teachers and service workers for example are simply worn out and tired of seeing friends and relatives needlessly die or nearly die from COVID.
KY.......
