NBC News - Anthony Klotz: The Covid vaccine means a return to work. And a wave of resignations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/covid-vaccine-means-return-work-wave-resignations-ncna1269018

Employees across the United States are beginning to transition into post-pandemic work life, as cities reopen, vaccination rates go up, mask mandates are rolled back and offices start the arduous process of recalling their employees — some of whom may not want to come back regularly, or at all. Clearly, it will be a complex transition, complicated even more by indications that the shift will be accompanied by a wave of resignations.

First, due to the uncertainty caused by the pandemic, many employees who would have otherwise quit their jobs stayed put. Indeed, using the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey to examine total (nonfarm) quits over the past two years, there were close to 6 million fewer resignations in 2020 than there were in 2019.

As the pandemic subsides, these would-be quitters who “sheltered in place” last year will likely enact their plans to leave. In fact, this surge of turnover is already underway: The resignation rate in March was 2.4 percent, which was the highest quit rate recorded for that month in 20 years. In short, the backlog of resignations caused by the pandemic are now beginning to clear.
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