Business Insider: “More people are telling their jobs to ‘shove it’ amidst record quits”
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Excerpt from Business Insider quoting DataTrek co-founder Jessica Rabe:
.... "The number is still slightly lower than April's record-breaking high of 68.8%. Jessica Rabe, DataTrek's cofounder, told Insider that quits are still driven by reduced access to childcare and fears of infection. Also significant: Workers relocating to the suburbs from urban centers.
But quits — and the "take this job and shove it" indicator — may have peaked in April. Schools are set to reopen in the coming months and enhanced unemployment benefits ending could get more people back in the labor force.
"We think the bulk of people disenfranchised by their jobs have quit by now, given this difficult nature of the pandemic over the last year," Rabe said. "We think the only caveat is if the Delta variant or others do take off and we get another raft of workers in customer service jobs quitting their jobs again, even with higher wages, but it won't likely be as big as the first wave"....
Read the full article here on Business Insider!
