One of the major shake-ups in the wathes of the workforce leaving their posts, voluntarily or not. Furloughs and layoffs through spring 2020 left many employees out of full-time jobs, while The Great Resignation saw 47.8 million US workers quit their jobs in 2021 alone – many of them without other positions explicitly lined up. In the UK, by June 2022, there were 1.7 million economically inactive people looking for work.
