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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Record Number Of Americans Leaving Their Jobs

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

Politics, Daily News, News

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A record number of American workers are leaving their jobs, adding to the nationwide labor shortage. There are multiple factors being attributed to this but what is clear is jobs are plentiful and companies are competing for the most experienced applicants. FOX's John Saucier speaks to FOX's Madison Alworth about this trend and what is behind it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Shannon Brem. I'm Tom Shalu. I'm Maria Bartiromo and this is the Fox News rundown.

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Monday, October 18th, 2021.

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I'm John Saucier. Have you seen this sign hanging up anywhere around you? Help wanted.

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It's no secret. There are a ton of job openings right now in this post-pandemicemic economy but where are the workers?

0:54.3

Turns out more people are actually quitting their jobs.

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People are deciding if they want to continue in the work that they're doing and there's no better

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time than right now because we're also seeing

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record high job openings. This is the Fox News rundown, evening edition.

1:10.3

Today we're talking about a metric called quit rate and it's exactly what it sounds like.

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What is the percentage of people who are quitting their jobs?

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The most recent job openings in the labor turnout

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report says the quit rate right now is the highest has ever been 2.9% and

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the month of August alone 4.3 million Americans left their jobs. I've spoken to people within the

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