Great Resignation rules jobs market

Once the COVID-19 restrictions eased, Americans were expected to return to the workforce in droves.

They’re not.

Texas A&M University professor Anthony Klotz has called it the Great Resignation. The long spell of being homebound during the pandemic-related lockdowns gave American employees — especially those in mid-career and in the technology and health care sectors — time to re-evaluate their lives, and many decided it was time for a change.

“During the pandemic,” Klotz said, “because there was a lot of death and illness and lockdowns, we really had the time and the motivation to sit back and say, ‘Do I like the…