![]() ![]() ![]() That included workers close to retirement age. suggests that in fact the labor force participation rate, which plunged at the beginning of 2020, recovered pretty quickly. ![]() There was some controversy about the Big Quit, not the least because some reporting on the trend made it sound as though many of these workers had decided to leave the labor force forever.īut the hard data - particularly here in the U.S. This was a trend that started right around the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and saw - anecdotally, at least - large numbers of people leaving their jobs voluntarily. In the last half of last year, we heard a lot of talk (and we at NPR did a lot of talking) about the Great Resignation, aka the Big Quit. ![]()
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