Harrop: Count on Americans to head back to work world
By Froma Harrop / syndicated columnist
Amazing to read that over 4 million Americans quit their jobs in September; part of a mass labor pullout being called the Great Resignation. The social and economic chaos unleashed by covid-19 has apparently jumbled pre-pandemic assumptions.
Many of the job leavers have used the downtime time to re-imagine what they want out of life and are concluding that “work no longer fits into that picture,” Barron’s reports.
Where is this going? The answer depends on what the resignees did before they terminated their employment. Most probably don’t plan to permanently erase paid work from their future but rather to take some personal time off. Best situated for trying out leisure are those who kept their paychecks during the shutdowns.
Others working the front lines may be quitting out of exhaustion. We speak of health care professionals burdened with treating thousands of dying patients. Or retail workers forced to confront mentally unbalanced shoppers throwing tantrums over mask mandates.
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