Despite higher hourly wages and big hiring bonuses, many people are bypassing jobs in the hospitality professions-restaurants, bars and hotels-in part due to concerns about the delta variant.īut the same factors could open the door to other job-seekers. In a phenomenon called the “Great Resignation,” almost 3 percent of Americans left their jobs in August, the highest number since December 2000, according to the Department of Labor. The post-Covid era has rung in one of the most contradictory employment pictures in memory: plenty of jobs, but chronic labor shortages millions laid off, but many declining to reenter the job market.
