2015–17 Worker Displacement — 2018-08-28

From January 2015 through December 2017, there were 3.0 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 slightly from 3.2 million workers for the prior survey period covering January 2013 to December 2015. In January 2018, 66 percent of workers displaced from 2015 to 2017 were reemployed, little different from the reemployment rate for January 2016. The U.S. Department of Labor's Chief Evaluation Office sponsored the January 2018 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.