2017–19 Worker Displacement — 2020-08-27

From January 2017 through December 2019, there were 2.7 million workers displaced from jobs they had held for at least 3 years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was down from 3.0 million workers for the prior survey period covering January 2015 to December 2017. In January 2020, 70 percent of workers displaced from 2017 to 2019 were reemployed, up from 66 percent in January 2018. The U.S. Department of Labor's Chief Evaluation Office sponsored the January 2020 survey to collect information on workers who were displaced from their jobs. Since 1984, these surveys have been conducted biennially in January as supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS), a monthly survey of households that is the primary source of information on the nation's labor force.