{"id":49900,"date":"2021-11-04T08:53:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"\/us\/en\/blog\/?p=49900"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:20:19","slug":"great-resignation-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/great-resignation-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"The great resignation: 8 ways small businesses can cope"},"content":{"rendered":"

By now, we’ve all heard about the Great Resignation. Droves of workers lost their jobs due to COVID-19 and the necessary shutdowns, but when businesses started to open up again, a lot of people didn’t go back to work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Small business owners<\/span> are struggling to keep operations running smoothly in the midst of this unprecedented <\/span>hiring crisis<\/span>. According to the most recent National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) monthly jobs report<\/a>,<\/span> 51% of small business owners had <\/span>job openings <\/span>they couldn’t fill in the last month. That\u2019s a record high for the second consecutive month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps even more troubling is the fact that 92% of employers trying to hire had few or no qualified candidates to apply. <\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s going on in the <\/span>labor market<\/span>? <\/span>Why is it so hard to find employees right now? Let’s dive in: <\/span><\/p>\n