2019–21 Worker Displacement — 2022-08-26

From January 2019 through December 2021, there were 3.6 million workers displaced from jobs they had held for at least 3 years, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was up by 924,000 workers from the prior survey period covering January 2017 to December 2019. In January 2022, 65 percent of workers displaced from 2019 to 2021 were reemployed, down from 70 percent in January 2020. The U.S. Department of Labor's Chief Evaluation Office sponsored the January 2022 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. For further information, see the Technical Note in this news release.