A record number of Americans are quitting their jobs across the U,S., a trend some have dubbed the “Great Resignation.” But the phenomenon is making an outsized impact in some regions: In Georgia, Kentucky and Idaho, more than 4% of workers voluntarily left their jobs in August the highest rates in the country. Perhaps […]
all right, tonight, we re takinga i closer look at what s being called the great resignation. 4.3 million americans quit their jobs in august alone. that s actually a record. the biggest reason: burnout. and rather than complain about the boss, thousands have become one by starting their own companies. here s cbs mark strassmann. reporter: nick folmar had pandemic panic, furloughed by his janitorial company 13 months ago when no one else was hiring. if i m going to have something, i m going to have to create it. hi, i m nicholas. reporter: folmar gambled with his family s savings to start jet stream clean, his carpet cleaning business along the alabama-georgia border. how has it paid off? well, i ve doubled my money, and my salary. reporter: doubled? doubled. reporter: cod amca has become a nation of quitters, job quitters. millions of workers, like folmar, leaving the job market for good, often to become their
own boss. in one survey, nearly one-third of workers who quit started their own business. ominously for employers, in another survey, 95% of workers say they were thinking about quitting. i m done with the cubicle. i m done commuting. i m done sitting in an office. reporter: professor tom smith studies the pandemic s labor market friends add can cae emory university s business school. maybe the looking craziness in the eye and coming up on the on the other end of it has made people reevaluate how much risk is actually involved. reporter: hustling in a crisis, folmar found pandemic prosperity more money, more time with his family, better life balance. i took this dream and ranth i and with it, i cured my family. reporter: with a paycheck he created, folmar can take this job.