American Workers Are Staying Put

The “Great Resignation” is solidly in the rearview mirror. Why were so many people quitting, anyway?

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Staying Put

After a stretch of runaway quitting over the past few years—you might’ve heard it dubbed the “Great Resignation”—American workers are largely staying put. In July, the rates of American workers quitting their jobs normalized to about where they were before the pandemic. New data from the Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover show that quit rates