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The JOLTS report or Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey is a report from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor. It is the principal fact-finding agency for the government of the United States, U.S. government in the broad field of labor economics, labor economics and ...
measuring
employment Employment is a relationship between two party (law), parties Regulation, regulating the provision of paid Labour (human activity), labour services. Usually based on a employment contract, contract, one party, the employer, which might be a cor ...
, layoffs, job openings, and quits in the United States economy. The report is released monthly and usually a month after the jobs report for the same reference period. Job separations are broken down into three categories quits or voluntary resignations, layoffs or discharges, and other separations which include deaths and retirements. Job openings and the quits rate were at an all time high in 2021 and 2022 in what came to be called the Great Resignation.


See also

* Nonfarm payrolls * Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics * Sahm rule - economic indicator predicting recessions *
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References

{{reflist Federal Statistical System of the United States National statistical services Official statistics Statistical organizations in the United States Unemployment in the United States