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Several sectors saw decreases in job openings. The Finance and Insurance and the Healthcare industries saw losses of 139,000 and 285,000, respectively. However, job openings increased in the Educational Services, State and Local Government Education and the Federal government sectors. Leisure and Hospitality had layoffs and discharges trending up by 87,000.

What is rage applying? This can (and does!) happen anywhere that workers are unhappy and unfulfilled in their jobs. Many experts view rage applying as the natural, albeit “more aggressive,” evolution of “quiet quitting.” Sometimes, this is the result of a bad day, and a worker who spent an afternoon in a bad mood, while applying to a dozen new jobs, can recover. However, rage applying that is being caused by a toxic work environment can damage a company brand, strangling any recruitment and retention strategies. It is important to understand the signs of rage applying from both sides of the equation: from the side of the employee who wants a better work experience and from the side of management who is dealing with applicants who may not even remember applying for the job, if they did so out of an emotional outburst. Hopefully, by understanding the “rage apply,” businesses can take the steps to mitigate its effects.

Seasoned truck drivers will be very familiar with Operation Safe Driver Week because it means that law enforcement will be out in full force to check for unsafe driving practices. However, new drivers need to be exposed to this as well.

For those with office jobs, the periods spent working since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States have been… trying at best. However, many workers hit their stride working from home. Saving money on gas and childcare and saving time by not commuting to work and sitting in traffic, lots of office employees found that a remote workstyle truly fit their needs and their lives, with less stress than they had experienced working in the office. While some smaller companies can and will remain fully remote, others need and desire the face-to-face communications and interpersonal work connections that working in an office brings. Some business owners found that it was difficult to keep everyone on their teams on the same pages, and there are also those that do not appreciate the complexities that remote work brings to teamwork.

At the end of April, job openings increased to 10.1 million, and hires didn’t change from the 6.1 million of the previous month. The quit rate fell minimally to 3.8 million, and layoffs and discharges also decreased to 1.6 million.