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Workers are choosing to leave their jobs at the fastest rate since the internet boom 17 years ago and getting rewarded for it with bigger paychecks and/or more satisfying work.
Labor Department data show that 3.4 million Americans quit their jobs in April, near a 2001 peak and twice the 1.7 million who were laid off from jobs in April.
Job-hopping is happening across industries including retail, food service and construction, a sign of broad-based labor-market dynamism.
Workers have been made more confident by a strong economy and historically low unemployment, at 3.8% in May, the lowest since 2000. Ms. Enoch started getting interview opportunities the same day she began sending out applications online.
The trend could stoke broader wage growth and improve worker productivity, which have been sluggish in the past decade. Workers tend to get their biggest wage increases when they move from one job to another. Job-switchers saw roughly 30% larger annual pay increases in May than those who stayed put over the past 12 months, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
[...] The resurgence of job-hopping is particularly helpful for younger workers looking for footholds to launch their careers, said Erika McEntarfer, an economist at the Census Bureau. About 6.5% of workers under age 35 changed jobs in the first quarter of last year, versus 3.1% of those ages 35 to 54, according to census data.
"The people who are changing jobs, they skew young and they skew being placed in what you might call bad jobs, where the average pay is quite low relative to other jobs in the economy," Ms. McEntarfer said. Job-hopping could lead them into higher-paying industries, she said.
Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-this-economy-quitters-are-winning-1530702001
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday July 06 2018, @04:55PM (7 children)
Most construction jobs aren't all that skilled. You can pick up what you need in a week for most of them. That said, go roof a house on a 110F day and see if you don't think you need paid well for it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @05:19PM (6 children)
Roofers work very early in the morning before it gets that hot out.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday July 06 2018, @05:48PM (3 children)
Says someone who had never lived in a humid climate where nighttime temps don't get below 70-75. Get up at 6am and start roofing at 100% humidity when it's "only" 75 degrees out. Yeah, it's better than the midday sun at 100 degrees, but still after 15 minutes you'll be longing for a shower.
And no, roofers in those climates often work most of the day anyway. Most residents don't want people banging on their roof at 6am, and neighbors don't want to hear it either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @05:59PM
Yeah, I lived in Florida. That's why I moved.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 06 2018, @09:28PM
A helpful chart for those who have always lived somewhere where the air is dry.
Heat index [wikipedia.org]
My first hot day in SoCal (where you don't have to wring out the air before trying to breath it), [noaa.gov] I had this odd sensation which I had never before experienced.
My forearm was tingly.
The sweat was evaporating as quickly as I was producing it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 07 2018, @01:24AM
I'm just imagining how awful it would be today if there was also moisture in the air.
My thermometer read 108 for several hours.
Now that it's in a direct line with sunlight, it's reading 110.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 06 2018, @06:37PM (1 child)
They work very early starting at 8 AM so as not to disturb the neighbors. Assuming you live on a city block with neighbors. I remember having my house re-roofed some years back.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday July 07 2018, @07:00AM
I wish. I worked a summer as a roofer and we worked sun up to sun down except for an hour's lunch. Roofing is not a union job and if you have rain on the way it's your entire ass if you don't get finished before it gets there.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.