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by silentsea90 952 days ago
Am I the only one tired of 'great resignation'-like manufactured trends created for clicks? People leave their jobs all the time.
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Here is quits rate data for US nonfarm jobs.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JTSQUR

In late 2021 and early 2022, the rate was the highest it had been in 20 years.

Although people leave jobs all the time, this is a notable increase. It is worthy of a study and maybe even worthy of a catchy name.

I (rarely) even turned down a request for a quote from some editor for a story involving great resignation/quiet quitting or something along those lines. I can even believe that COVID caused some people to reassess priorities and acted as something of a forcing function (and know of a couple examples) but you can't really tease out trends from a few anecdotes.